Kakusan4 and Aminosan: two programs for comparing nonpartitioned, proportional and separate models for combined molecular phylogenetic analyses of multilocus sequence data.

abstract：:Avian malaria and related haemosporidians (Plasmodium, [Para]Haemoproteus and Leucocytoozoon) represent an exciting multihost, multiparasite system in ecology and evolution. Global research in this field accelerated after the publication in 2000 of PCR protocols to sequence a haemosporidian mitochondrial (mtDNA) barco...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Barrow LN,Allen JM,Huang X,Bensch S,Witt CC

更新日期：2019-03-01 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：: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：:Phylogenomic methods have proven useful for resolving deep nodes and recalcitrant groups in the spider tree of life. Across arachnids, transcriptomic approaches may generate thousands of loci, and target-capture methods, using the previously designed arachnid-specific probe set, can target a maximum of about 1,000 loc...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Kulkarni S,Wood H,Lloyd M,Hormiga G

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the visual sensitivities of an organism of interest, quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) is often used to quantify expression of the light-sensitive opsins in the retina. While qRT-PCR is an affordable, high-throughput method for measuring expression, it comes with inher...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Yourick MR,Sandkam BA,Gammerdinger WJ,Escobar-Camacho D,Nandamuri SP,Clark FE,Joyce B,Conte MA,Kocher TD,Carleton KL

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge of population demographics is important for species management but can be challenging in low-density, wide-ranging species. Population monitoring of the endangered Sonoran pronghorn (Antilocapra americana sonoriensis) is critical for assessing the success of recovery efforts, and noninvasive DNA sampling (ND...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Woodruff SP,Johnson TR,Waits LP

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most hosts are concurrently or sequentially infected with multiple parasites; thus, fully understanding interactions between individual parasite species and their hosts depends on accurate characterization of the parasite community. For parasitic nematodes, noninvasive methods for obtaining quantitative, species-speci...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Budischak SA,Hoberg EP,Abrams A,Jolles AE,Ezenwa VO

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As coral populations decline worldwide in the face of ongoing environmental change, documenting their distribution, diversity and conservation status is now more imperative than ever. Accurate delimitation and identification of species is a critical first step. This task, however, is not trivial as morphological varia...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Erickson KL,Pentico A,Quattrini AM,McFadden CS

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For nonmodel organisms, genome-wide information that describes functionally relevant variation may be obtained by RNA-Seq following de novo transcriptome assembly. While sequencing has become relatively inexpensive, the preparation of a large number of sequencing libraries remains prohibitively expensive for populatio...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Konczal M,Koteja P,Stuglik MT,Radwan J,Babik W

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anolis lizards are important models in studies of ecology and evolution. Here we describe 13 polymorphic microsatellites for use in population screening in the St Lucia anole, Anolis luciae, that can be used as a natural replicate to Anolis roquet on Martinique to study processes involved in population differentiation...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Johansson H,Surget-Groba Y,Gow JL,Thorpe RS

更新日期：2008-11-01 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：:The construction of microsatellite-enriched libraries is an indispensable tool to search for molecular markers as complete genome sequences are still not available for the majority of species of interest. Numerous protocols are available in the literature for the construction of these libraries; however, sometimes the...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Techen N,Arias RS,Glynn NC,Pan Z,Khan IA,Scheffler BE

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Restriction-site-associated DNA tag (RAD-tag) sequencing has become a popular approach to generate thousands of SNPs used to address diverse questions in population genomics. Comparatively, the suitability of RAD-tag genotyping to address evolutionary questions across divergent species has been the subject of only a f...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Viricel A,Pante E,Dabin W,Simon-Bouhet B

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA microarrays are a popular technique for the detection of microorganisms. Several approaches using specific oligomers targeting one or a few marker genes for each species have been proposed. Data analysis is usually limited to call a species present when its oligomer exceeds a certain intensity threshold. While thi...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Engelmann JC,Rahmann S,Wolf M,Schultz J,Fritzilas E,Kneitz S,Dandekar T,Müller T

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two of the five subspecies of the western big-eared bat, Corynorhinus townsendii, are listed as federally endangered with the remaining three being of conservation concern. Knowing the degree of connectivity among populations would aid in the establishment of sound conservation and management plans for this taxon. For...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Piaggio AJ,Miller KE,Matocq MD,Perkins SL

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：:The advent of next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies has transformed the way microsatellites are isolated for ecological and evolutionary investigations. Recent attempts to employ NGS for microsatellite discovery have used the 454, Illumina, and Ion Torrent platforms, but other methods including single-molecule...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Wei N,Bemmels JB,Dick CW

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asian arowana or dragonfish (Scleropages formosus) is an important fish species due to its unusual breeding biology and high economic value in the ornamental fish markets. In the present study, we aimed to (i) create the first transcriptome by Roche 454 pyrosequencing of Asian arowana brain and gonad samples; (ii) ide...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Shen XY,Kwan HY,Thevasagayam NM,Prakki SR,Kuznetsova IS,Ngoh SY,Lim Z,Feng F,Chang A,Orbán L

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of effective population size (N(e) ) is based on an elegantly simple idea which, however, rapidly becomes very complex when applied to most real-world situations. In natural populations, spatial and temporal stratifications create different classes of individuals with different vital rates, and this in tur...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Waples RS

更新日期：2010-09-01 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：:Incorporating historical tissues into the study of ecological, conservation and management questions can broaden the scope of population genetic research by enhancing our understanding of evolutionary processes and anthropogenic influences on natural populations. Genotyping historical and low-quality samples has been ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Smith MJ,Pascal CE,Grauvogel Z,Habicht C,Seeb JE,Seeb LW

更新日期：2011-03-01 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：:Nematodes play an important role in ecosystem processes, yet the relevance of nematode species diversity to ecology is unknown. Because nematode identification of all individuals at the species level using standard techniques is difficult and time-consuming, nematode communities are not resolved down to the species le...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Porazinska DL,Giblin-Davis RM,Faller L,Farmerie W,Kanzaki N,Morris K,Powers TO,Tucker AE,Sung W,Thomas WK

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 significant portion of plant species are polyploids, with ploidy levels sometimes varying among individuals and/or populations. Current techniques to determine the individual ploidy, e.g., flow cytometry, chromosome counting or genotyping-by-sequencing, are often cumbersome. Based on the genotypic probabilities for ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Huang K,Dunn DW,Li Z,Zhang P,Dai Y,Li B

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolutionary alterations to cis-regulatory sequences are likely to cause adaptive phenotypic complexity, through orchestrating changes in cellular proliferation, identity and communication. For nonmodel organisms with adaptive key innovations, patterns of regulatory evolution have been predominantly limited to targete...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Kratochwil CF,Meyer A

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic technologies continue to shed light on important ecological and evolutionary questions. Nonetheless, these new tools are applied disproportionately in a small fraction of global biodiversity, partly because of technical challenges to studying highly diverse taxa that occur in low abundances in an environment (...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Cassin-Sackett L

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plant family Labiatae (Lamiaceae) is known for its fine medicinal and aromatic herbs like lavender, mint, oregano, sage and thyme and is a rich source of essential oils for the food, pharmaceutical and cosmetic industry. Besides its great economic importance, the Labiatae family contributes significantly to the en...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Theodoridis S,Stefanaki A,Tezcan M,Aki C,Kokkini S,Vlachonasios KE

更新日期：2012-07-01 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：: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