Nine novel, polymorphic microsatellite markers for the study of threatened Caribbean acroporid corals.

abstract：:Plants stably transformed to manipulate the expression of genes mediating ecological performance have profoundly altered research in plant ecology. Agrobacterium-mediated transformation remains the most effective method of creating plants harbouring a limited number of transgene integrations of low complexity. For eco...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Gase K,Weinhold A,Bozorov T,Schuck S,Baldwin IT

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA barcoding has become an important current scientific trend to the understanding of the world biodiversity. In the case of mega-diverse hot spots like Mexico, this technique represents an important tool for taxonomists, allowing them to concentrate in highlighted species by the barcodes instead of analyzing entire ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Elías-Gutiérrez M,León-Regagnon V

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe 15 polymorphic microsatellite loci from the white-ruffed manakin Corapipo altera, a common understory bird of Neotropical lowland and montane evergreen forests from eastern Honduras to northwestern Colombia. These markers were developed in order to assess population structure and genetic diversity in a fra...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Barnett JR,Stenzler LM,Ruiz-Gutierrez V,Bogdanowicz SM,Lovette IJ

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rice stem borer, Chilo suppressalis, is one of the most damaging insect pests to rice production worldwide. Although C. suppressalis has been the focus of numerous studies examining cold tolerance and diapause, plant-insect interactions, pesticide targets and resistance, and the development of RNAi-mediated pest m...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Ma W,Zhao X,Yin C,Jiang F,Du X,Chen T,Zhang Q,Qiu L,Xu H,Joe Hull J,Li G,Sung WK,Li F,Lin Y

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA barcoding is a global initiative that provides a standardized and efficient tool to catalogue and inventory biodiversity, with significant conservation applications. Despite progress across taxonomic realms, globally threatened marine turtles remain underrepresented in this effort. To obtain DNA barcodes of marine...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Naro-Maciel E,Reid B,Fitzsimmons NN,LE M,Desalle R,Amato G

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Archived specimens are highly valuable sources of DNA for retrospective genetic/genomic analysis. However, often limited effort has been made to evaluate and optimize extraction methods, which may be crucial for downstream applications. Here, we assessed and optimized the usefulness of abundant archived skeletal mater...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Nielsen EE,Morgan JAT,Maher SL,Edson J,Gauthier M,Pepperell J,Holmes BJ,Bennett MB,Ovenden JR

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adaptation to different ecological environments can promote speciation. Although numerous examples of such 'ecological speciation' now exist, the genomic basis of the process, and the role of gene flow in it, remains less understood. This is, at least in part, because systems that are well characterized in terms of th...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Comeault AA,Sommers M,Schwander T,Buerkle CA,Farkas TE,Nosil P,Parchman TL

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The availability of numerous universal markers and suitable phylogenetic analysis methods are both very important for phylogenomics inference. Based on PCR amplification, a total of 122 markers, which were amplified in 19 representative species, were developed for Laurasiatherian phylogenomics. Subsequently, we illust...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Zhou X,Xu S,Zhang P,Yang G

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stegodyphus lineatus spiders live in groups consisting of closely related individuals. There appears to be no discrimination against related individuals as mates but females mate multiply, despite the fact that matings are shown to carry a cost. We have developed eight polymorphic dinucleotide microsatellite markers t...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Bilde T,Tuni C,Cariani A,Santini A,Tabarroni C,Garoia F,Goodacre SL

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article documents the public availability of approximately 15 000 polymorphic SNP loci for the bighorn sheep Ovis canadensis. ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Genomic Resources Development Consortium.,Coltman DW,Hogg JT,Miller JM

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Introgression can be an important evolutionary force but it can also lead to species extinction and as such is a crucial issue for species conservation. However, introgression is difficult to detect, morphologically as well as genetically. Hybridization with domestic cats (Felis silvestris catus) is a major concern fo...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Nussberger B,Greminger MP,Grossen C,Keller LF,Wandeler P

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mosquitoes belonging to the Culex pipiens complex are primary vectors for diseases such as West Nile encephalitis, Eastern equine encephalitis, many arboviruses, as well as lymphatic filariases. Despite sharing physiological characteristics, each mosquito species within the Culex complex has unique behavioural and rep...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Kang D,Sim C

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, 49 primers were designed from sequences containing di-, tri-, tetra-, penta- and hexanucleotide motifs with a minimum of four repeats and presence of motif size polymorphisms (insertion/deletion) from cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) expressed sequence tags deposited in public sequence database. Each ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Tangphatsornruang S,Sraphet S,Singh R,Okogbenin E,Fregene M,Triwitayakorn K

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae), a member of ratite family, is native to Australia and has been introduced to other countries worldwide. In this work, 10 polymorphic microsatellite loci were isolated and characterized for emu from public sequences. Polymorphism was surveyed in 22 individuals from two different popu...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Yáñez JM,González R,Angulo J,Vidal R,Santos JL,Martínez V

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:QST , a measure of quantitative genetic differentiation among populations, is an index that can suggest local adaptation if QST for a trait is sufficiently larger than the mean FST of neutral genetic markers. A previous method by Whitlock and Guillaume derived a simulation resampling approach to statistically test for...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Gilbert KJ,Whitlock MC

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the contribution of DNA barcoding towards understanding the biodiversity and distribution of species, the success of COI amplification has been quite variable when it comes to freshwater zooplankton (Elías-Gutiérrez & Valdez-Moreno 2008; Jeffery et al. 2011). Some genera of microcrustaceans seem to be more dif...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Prosser S,Martínez-Arce A,Elías-Gutiérrez M

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estimation of demographic history from nucleotide sequences represents an important component of many studies in molecular ecology. For example, knowledge of a population's history can allow us to test hypotheses about the impact of climatic and anthropogenic factors. In the past, demographic analysis was typically li...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Ho SY,Shapiro B

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many plants and some animal species are polyploids. Nondisomically inherited markers (e.g. microsatellites) in such species cannot be analysed directly by standard population genetics methods developed for diploid species. One solution is to transform the polyploid codominant genotypes to pseudodiploid-dominant genoty...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Wang J,Scribner KT

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of dominant markers such as amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) for population genetics analyses is often impeded by the lack of appropriate computer programs and rarely motivated by objective considerations. The point of the present note is twofold: (i) we describe how the computer program Geneland ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Guillot G,Santos F

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microsatellite loci were identified from Cornus kousa'National'. Primer pairs for 86 loci were developed and of these, eight were optimized and screened using genomic DNA from 22 kousa cultivars. All optimized loci were polymorphic and the number of alleles per locus ranged from three to 17. Observed heterozygosity ra...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Wadl PA,Wang X,Scheffler BE,Rinehart TA,Trigiano RN

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 'Symphyta' is a paraphyletic assemblage at the base of the order Hymenoptera, comprising 14 families and about 8750 species. All have phytophagous larvae, except for the Orussidae, which are parasitoids. This study presents and evaluates the results of DNA barcoding of approximately 5360 specimens of 'Symphyta', m...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Schmidt S,Taeger A,Morinière J,Liston A,Blank SM,Kramp K,Kraus M,Schmidt O,Heibo E,Prous M,Nyman T,Malm T,Stahlhut J

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic stock identification (GSI) is an important tool in fisheries management. Microsatellites (μSATs) have been the dominant genetic marker for GSI; however, increasing availability and numerous advantages of single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers make them an appealing alternative. We tested performance of 1...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Hess JE,Matala AP,Narum SR

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested for cross-species amplification of microsatellite loci located throughout the domestic sheep (Ovis aries) genome in two north American mountain ungulates (bighorn sheep, Ovis canadensis, and mountain goats, Oreamnos americanus). We identified 247 new polymorphic markers in bighorn sheep (≥ 3 alleles in one o...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Poissant J,Shafer AB,Davis CS,Mainguy J,Hogg JT,Côté SD,Coltman DW

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-eight microsatellite loci were developed for the bird pollinated, autohexaploid, Eremophila glabra ssp. glabra. A genomic library was screened with dinucleotide and trinucleotide sequence repeats. Polymorphism ranged from one to 21 alleles per locus. Twenty-four loci exhibited null alleles, based on patterns of...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Elliott CP

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA metabarcoding was utilized for a large-scale, multiyear assessment of biodiversity in Malaise trap collections from the Bavarian Forest National Park (Germany, Bavaria). Principal component analysis of read count-based biodiversities revealed clustering in concordance with whether collection sites were located ins...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Hardulak LA,Morinière J,Hausmann A,Hendrich L,Schmidt S,Doczkal D,Müller J,Hebert PDN,Haszprunar G

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed 18 polymorphic microsatellite markers for Coregonus lavaretus from genomic libraries enriched for (GACA)(n) and (GATA)(n) repeat sequences. Emphasis was placed on developing highly polymorphic, perfect repeats. These loci were screened in 69 individuals from two alpine populations in Austria. Allelic vari...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Winkler KA,Weiss S

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pedigree reconstruction using genotypic markers has become an important tool for the study of natural populations. The nonstandard nature of the underlying statistical problems has led to the necessity of developing specialized statistical and computational methods. In this article, a new version of pedigree reconstru...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Almudevar A,Anderson EC

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The brushtail possum is a major agricultural and ecological pest in New Zealand. A novel noninvasive DNA sampling tool for detecting its presence (WaxTags, or WT) was tested. DNA was recovered from saliva left on WT, and two lengths (407 bp and 648 bp) of the cytochrome c oxidase I (COI) barcoding region were amplifie...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Vargas ML,Cruickshank RH,Ross JG,Holyoake AJ,Ogilvie SC,Paterson AM

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A microsatellite-enriched genomic library was obtained for the endangered Japanese loach Leptobotia curta, and 39 dinucleotide markers were successfully isolated and characterized. These markers had between one and nine alleles, with expected heterozygosity ranging from 0 to 0.839, in a population from the Lake Biwa-Y...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Watanabe K,Takeshima H,Iwata A,Abe T,Uehara K,Kakioka R,Kihira D,Nishida M

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long a major focus of genetic research and breeding, sunflowers (Helianthus) are emerging as an increasingly important experimental system for ecological and evolutionary studies. Here, we review the various attributes of wild and domesticated sunflowers that make them valuable for ecological experimentation and descr...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Kane NC,Burke JM,Marek L,Seiler G,Vear F,Baute G,Knapp SJ,Vincourt P,Rieseberg LH

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00