Advancing ecological understandings through technological transformations in noninvasive genetics.

abstract：:Long columns of migrating larval sciarid armyworms were discovered in central and northern Japan, specifically Kanagawa, Gunma, Miyagi and Akita prefectures, as well as Hokkaido. This is the first examination of armyworms in East Asia. In Europe, armyworms have been identified as Sciara militaris, belonging to the fam...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Sutou M,Kato T,Ito M

更新日期：2011-11-01 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：:We report the characterization of 25 microsatellite loci isolated from the macaroni penguin (Eudyptes chrysolophus). Thirteen loci were arranged into four multiplex sets for future genetic studies of macaroni penguin populations. All 25 loci were tested separately in each of four other penguin species [Adélie penguin ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Ahmed S,Hart T,Dawson DA,Horsburgh GJ,Trathan PN,Rogers AD

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a new model to make use of georeferenced genetic data for inferring the location and shape of a hybrid zone. The model output includes the posterior distribution of a parameter that quantifies the width of the hybrid zone. The model proposed is implemented in the GUI and command-line versions of the Genelan...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Guedj B,Guillot G

更新日期：2011-11-01 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：:The sea urchin Arbacia lixula is a keystone species in Mediterranean ecosystems that drive landscape changes in littoral communities. However, genomic information available for the whole order Arbacioida is very limited. Using RNA-seq techniques, we have characterized the transcriptome of four different tissue types i...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Pérez-Portela R,Turon X,Riesgo A

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To enable the accurate sexing of individuals of introduced populations of the small Indian mongoose, Herpestes auropunctatus, we designed a primer set for the amplification of the sex-specific fragments EIF2S3Y and EIF2S3X. Using this primer set, the expected amplification products were obtained for all samples of gen...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Murata C,Ogura G,Kuroiwa A

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA extraction from minute hymenopterans and their larvae is difficult and challenging because of their small size indicating a low amount of starting material. Hence, 11 DNA extraction methods were compared to determine their efficacy in isolating DNA. Success of each method was scored on a 2% agarose gel after PCR o...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Dittrich-Schröder G,Wingfield MJ,Klein H,Slippers B

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The longheaded eagle ray, Aetobatus flagellum feeds mainly on bivalves, and there have been some indications that the current reduction in the bivalve population in southern Japan may be due to an increase in the number of longheaded eagle rays. Consequently, the 'predator control programme' for reducing the longheade...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Yagishita N,Yamaguchi A

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present 25 polymorphic microsatellite loci for Intsia palembanica, a highly valued timber species in the Indo-Malayan region, Australia and western Pacific islands. Microsatellite loci were tested for polymorphism across a total of 76 individuals from three natural populations from Irian Jaya, Indonesia. The averag...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Wong KN,Tan WL,Chew FT

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microsatellites are valuable markers for the analysis of genetic diversity, linkage mapping or genotyping. The limited availability of microsatellites for the genus Potentilla (Rosaceae) stipulated the isolation of markers from a representative (Potentilla pusilla Host) of the Potentilla core group that constitutes th...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Dobeš Ch,Scheffknecht S

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We combined restriction site associated DNA sequencing (RADseq) using a hypomethylation-sensitive enzyme and messenger RNA sequencing (mRNAseq) to develop molecular markers for the 16 gigabase genome of Cedrus atlantica, a conifer tree species. With each method, Illumina(®) reads from one individual were used to gener...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Karam MJ,Lefèvre F,Dagher-Kharrat MB,Pinosio S,Vendramin GG

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New DNA sequencing technologies are allowing researchers to explore the genomes of the millions of natural history specimens collected prior to the molecular era. Yet, we know little about how well specific next-generation sequencing (NGS) techniques work with the degraded DNA typically extracted from museum specimens...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： McCormack JE,Tsai WL,Faircloth BC

更新日期：2016-09-01 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：:Noninvasive genetic sampling has increasingly been used in ecological and conservation studies during the last decade. A major part of the noninvasive genetic literature is dedicated to the search for optimal protocols, by comparing different methods of collection, preservation and extraction of DNA from noninvasive m...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Renan S,Speyer E,Shahar N,Gueta T,Templeton AR,Bar-David S

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhinobatos percellens, Rhinobatos horkelli and Zapteryx brevirostris, known as guitarfish, are commonly found inshore and caught by trawl nets. Recently, these species have been suffering sharp population declines. One of the main impediments to the development of conservation plans is the lack of information related ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： DE-Franco B,Mendonça FF,Hashimoto DT,Porto-Foresti F,Oliveira C,Foresti F

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantifying and classifying ichthyoplankton is one of the most effective ways of monitoring the recruitment process in fishes. However, correctly identifying the fish based on morphological characters is extremely difficult, especially in the early stages of development. We examined ichthyoplankton from tributaries an...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Frantine-Silva W,Sofia SH,Orsi ML,Almeida FS

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We identified microsatellite sequences of potential utility in the house sparrow (Passer domesticus) and assigned their predicted genome locations. These sequences included newly isolated house sparrow loci, which we fully characterized. Many of the newly isolated loci were polymorphic in two other species of Passerid...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Dawson DA,Horsburgh GJ,Krupa AP,Stewart IR,Skjelseth S,Jensen H,Ball AD,Spurgin LG,Mannarelli ME,Nakagawa S,Schroeder J,Vangestel C,Hinten GN,Burke T

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Global climate change (GCC) may be causing distribution range shifts in many organisms worldwide. Multiple efforts are currently focused on the development of models to better predict distribution range shifts due to GCC. We addressed this issue by including intraspecific genetic structure and spatial autocorrelation ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Martínez-Minaya J,Conesa D,Fortin MJ,Alonso-Blanco C,Picó FX,Marcer A

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-four novel microsatellite markers developed for wood cricket (Nemobius sylvestris) were tested and optimized. Twenty-five microsatellite loci were polymorphic, exhibiting between two and nine alleles. Observed heterozygosities ranged from 0.038 to 0.925. The microsatellites were also tested in a species belongi...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Vanhala T,Cottrell J

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the development of 10 polymorphic molecular markers containing short tandem repeats in the cosmopolitan reef-building coral, Pocillopora damicornis, an important model species for coral health, physiology, ecology, and genetics. The availability of polymorphic DNA markers in P. damicornis can act as impetus ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Starger CJ,Yeoh SS,Dai CF,Baker AC,Desalle R

更新日期：2008-05-01 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 protist Labyrinthula zosterae (Phylum Bigyra, sensu Tsui et al. 2009) has been identified as a causative agent of wasting disease in eelgrass (Zostera marina), of which the most intense outbreak led to the destruction of 90% of eelgrass beds in eastern North America and western Europe in the 1930s. Outbreaks still...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Bergmann N,Fricke B,Schmidt MC,Tams V,Beining K,Schwitte H,Boettcher AA,Martin DL,Bockelmann AC,Reusch TB,Rauch G

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The European flounder (Platichthys flesus L.) is used in ecotoxicological studies to provide detailed information on the effects of pollution on individual fish. Data on population and evolutionary level effects are, however, limited. Here, the isolation and characterization of 28 novel species specific microsatellite...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Tysklind N,Neuparth T,Ashcroft GR,Taylor MI,Lyons BP,McCarthy ID,Carvalho GR

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe primers and polymerase chain reaction conditions to amplify 22 microsatellite loci from the Barrow's goldeneye (Bucephala islandica). The primers were tested on 27 individuals from a population breeding in British Columbia, Canada. The developed primer pairs yielded an average of 6.11 alleles per locus (ra...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Jaari S,Jaatinen K,Merilä J

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biodiversity analyses based on next-generation sequencing (NGS) platforms have developed by leaps and bounds in recent years. A PCR-free strategy, which can alleviate taxonomic bias, was considered as a promising approach to delivering reliable species compositions of targeted environments. The major impediment of suc...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Liu S,Wang X,Xie L,Tan M,Li Z,Su X,Zhang H,Misof B,Kjer KM,Tang M,Niehuis O,Jiang H,Zhou X

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present 10 microsatellite markers for the buttonwood mangrove, Conocarpus erectus, a wide-range mangrove associate species. Polymorphism was assessed among individuals from six different populations along the Pacific Coast of Mexico and Costa Rica, as well as in two individuals from the Yucatan Peninsula in the Atl...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Nettel A,Dodd RS,Cid-Becerra JA,DE LA Rosa-Velez J

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Chilean isopod Excirolana hirsuticauda is a marine benthic brooder with wide distributional range and low potential for long-distance dispersal. Eleven microsatellite markers were developed for E. hirsuticauda using enriched libraries. Characterization of those loci in 35 individuals from Playa Blanca beach showed...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Haye PA,Marchant S

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel set of microsatellite markers for mungbean [Vigna radiata (L.) Wilczek] was developed from the public sequence database. Seventy-eight primers were designed and evaluated for polymorphism among 22 cultivated accessions. Eight polymorphic loci detected two to three alleles per locus with an average of 2.25. The...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Seehalak W,Somta P,Sommanas W,Srinives P

更新日期：2009-05-01 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