An objective, rapid and reproducible method for scoring AFLP peak-height data that minimizes genotyping error.

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：:Molecular markers have been used to identify the sex of sampled individuals for several decades, but the time-consuming development phase prevented their application in many systems. Recently, a growing number of papers have applied reduced-representation sequencing (RRS) protocols to the identification of sex-specifi...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Moore JS,Benestan L

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spatial signature of microevolutionary processes structuring genetic variation may play an important role in the detection of loci under selection. However, the spatial location of samples has not yet been used to quantify this. Here, we present a new two-step method of spatial outlier detection at the individual ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Wagner HH,Chávez-Pesqueira M,Forester BR

更新日期：2017-11-01 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：: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：:High-throughput identification technologies provide efficient tools for understanding the ecology and functioning of microorganisms. Yet, these methods have been only rarely used for monitoring and testing ecological hypotheses in plant pathogens and pests in spite of their immense importance in agriculture, forestry ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Tedersoo L,Drenkhan R,Anslan S,Morales-Rodriguez C,Cleary M

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Frequently, the diversity of umbrella taxa is invoked to predict patterns of other, less well-known, life. However, the utility of this strategy has been questioned. We tested whether a phylogenetic diversity (PD) analysis of CO1 DNA barcodes could act as a proxy for standard methods of determining sampling efficiency...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Smith MA,Fernandez-Triana J,Roughley R,Hebert PD

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：: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：:Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) has formed the backbone of phylogeographic research for many years; however, recent trends focus on genome-wide analyses. One method proposed for calibrating inferences from noisy next-generation data, such as RAD sequencing, is to compare these results with analyses of mitochondrial sequence...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Stobie CS,Cunningham MJ,Oosthuizen CJ,Bloomer P

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We isolated 18 microsatellites from Sycoscapter australis, a nonpollinating fig wasp that develops in figs of Ficus macrophylla, and assessed their variability in 20 wasps. We further optimized nine of these loci for use in three other Sycoscapter species that develop in Ficus rubiginosa figs and assessed their variab...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Bouteiller-Reuter C,Hale ML,Cook JM

更新日期：2009-05-01 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：:Eleven microsatellites were characterized for Semicossyphus pulcher (California sheephead) using an enrichment protocol. The number of alleles varied from three to 14 for a sample of 40 individuals from two populations. Expected heterozygosities ranged from 0.311 to 0.891. All loci but one were in Hardy-Weinberg equil...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Poortvliet M,Olsen JL,Selkoe KA,Coyer JA,Bernardi G

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aleppo pine (Pinus halepensis Mill.) is a relevant conifer species for studying adaptive responses to drought and fire regimes in the Mediterranean region. In this study, we performed Illumina next-generation sequencing of two phenotypically divergent Aleppo pine accessions with the aims of (i) characterizing the tran...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Pinosio S,González-Martínez SC,Bagnoli F,Cattonaro F,Grivet D,Marroni F,Lorenzo Z,Pausas JG,Verdú M,Vendramin GG

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report results of cross-species amplification in Dactylis glomerata and Lolium perenne of 12 simple sequence repeats (SSRs) isolated from Lolium multiflorum×Festuca glaucescens, 42 SSRs from Festuca arundinacea and two sequence tagged sites from Oryza sativa. We compared the transferability and diversity between D....

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Litrico I,Bech N,Flajoulot S,Cadier D,Talon C,Gibelin C,Barre P

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the genetics of biological diversification across micro- and macro-evolutionary time scales is a vibrant field of research for molecular ecologists as rapid advances in sequencing technologies promise to overcome former limitations. In palms, an emblematic, economically and ecologically important plant f...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： de La Harpe M,Hess J,Loiseau O,Salamin N,Lexer C,Paris M

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Luffa spp. (sponge gourd or ridge gourd) is an economically important vegetable crop widely cultivated in China, India and Southeast Asia. Here, we employed PacBio long-read single-molecule real-time (SMRT) sequencing to perform de novo genome assemblies of two commonly cultivated Luffa species, L. acutangula and L. c...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Pootakham W,Sonthirod C,Naktang C,Nawae W,Yoocha T,Kongkachana W,Sangsrakru D,Jomchai N,U-Thoomporn S,Sheedy JR,Buaboocha J,Mekiyanon S,Tangphatsornruang S

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

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：:Understanding how landscape features affect gene flow has implications for numerous fields including molecular and evolutionary ecology. Despite this, modelling landscape resistance surfaces has remained a significant challenge. The R package resistancega was developed to provide a framework for optimizing landscape r...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Winiarski KJ,Peterman WE,McGarigal K

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of assessing spatial data at multiple scales when modelling species-environment relationships has been highlighted by several empirical studies. However, no landscape genetics studies have optimized landscape resistance surfaces by evaluating relevant spatial predictors at multiple spatial scales. Here,...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Winiarski KJ,Peterman WE,Whiteley AR,McGarigal K

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Camelids are characterized by their unique adaptive immune system that exhibits the generation of homodimeric heavy-chain immunoglobulins, somatic hypermutation of T-cell receptors, and low genetic diversity of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes. However, short-read assemblies are typically highly fragmented...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Ming L,Wang Z,Yi L,Batmunkh M,Liu T,Siren D,He J,Juramt N,Jambl T,Li Y,Jirimutu

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-four simple sequence repeat markers were developed for Phakopsora pachyrhizi, a fungal pathogen of soybean (Glycine max) and other legumes. All 24 of the loci were evaluated on 28 isolates of P. pachyrhizi. Twenty-one loci were polymorphic, with allelic diversity ranging from two to eight alleles, and null alle...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Anderson SJ,Stone CL,Posada-Buitrago ML,Boore JL,Neelam BA,Stephens RM,Luster DG,Frederick RD,Pedley KF

更新日期：2008-11-01 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：:High-throughput sequencing has changed many aspects of population genetics, molecular ecology and related fields, affecting both experimental design and data analysis. The software package angsd allows users to perform a number of population genetic analyses on high-throughput sequencing data. angsd uses probabilistic...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Durvasula A,Hoffman PJ,Kent TV,Liu C,Kono TJ,Morrell PL,Ross-Ibarra J

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA-based methods have greatly enhanced the sensitivity and specificity of hematophagous arthropod bloodmeal identification. A variety of methods have been applied to study the blood-feeding behaviour of mosquitoes, ticks, black flies and other blood-feeding arthropods as it relates to host-parasite interactions and p...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Kent RJ

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：:This article documents the public availability of raw transcriptome sequence data and 63,020 SNPs for the polar bear (Ursus maritimus). ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Genomic Resources Development Consortium.,Coltman DW,Davis CS,Lunn NJ,Malenfant RM,Richardson ES

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Next-generation sequencing is a common method for analysing microbial community diversity and composition. Configuring an appropriate sequence processing strategy within the variety of tools and methods is a nontrivial task and can considerably influence the resulting community characteristics. We analysed the V4 regi...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Hardge K,Neuhaus S,Kilias ES,Wolf C,Metfies K,Frickenhaus S

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed 16 microsatellite markers in Cordia bifurcata, a Central and South American shrub. The markers show low polymorphism in C. bifurcata, a species suspected of self-fertilization or apomixis. Of four polymorphic loci, three had only two alleles. However, current research indicates that these markers hold val...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Spoon TR,Kesseli RV

更新日期：2008-09-01 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