A factorial design experiment as a pilot study for noninvasive genetic sampling.

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：: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：:Thanks to the development of high-throughput sequencing technologies, target enrichment sequencing of nuclear ultraconserved DNA elements (UCEs) now allows routine inference of phylogenetic relationships from thousands of genomic markers. Recently, it has been shown that mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is frequently sequenc...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Allio R,Schomaker-Bastos A,Romiguier J,Prosdocimi F,Nabholz B,Delsuc F

更新日期：2020-07-01 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：:Twelve polymorphic microsatellite loci were isolated for the bonefish, Albula vulpes using a polymerase chain reaction-based procedure. The number of alleles ranged from two to 23 (mean = 8.8) in 37 specimens from south Florida. Observed and expected heterozygosities ranged from 0.07 to 0.77 (mean = 0.42) and from 0.0...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Seyoum S,Wallace EM,Tringali MD

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed eight high-quality microsatellite DNA loci for the saltmarsh sharp-tailed sparrow and one additional locus with evidence of null alleles. In a sample of 250-350 individuals, the average number of alleles per locus was 14.7 and average observed heterozygosity was 0.80. These loci were tested in three ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Hill CE,Tomko S,Hagen C,Schable NA,Glenn TC

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We implemented multilocus selection in a spatially-explicit, individual-based framework that enables multivariate environmental gradients to drive selection in many loci as a new module for the landscape genetics programs, CDPOP and CDMetaPOP. Our module simulates multilocus selection using a linear additive model, pr...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Landguth EL,Forester BR,Eckert AJ,Shirk AJ,Menon M,Whipple A,Day CC,Cushman SA

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic data sets are increasingly central to ecological and evolutionary biology, but far fewer resources are available for invertebrates. Powerful new computational tools and the rapidly decreasing cost of Illumina sequencing are beginning to change this, enabling rapid genome assembly and reference marker extractio...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Sun X,Ding Y,Orr MC,Zhang F

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed nine new nuclear dinucleotide microsatellite loci for Castor canadensis. All loci were polymorphic, except for one. The number of alleles ranged from two to four and from five to 12 in populations from Arizona and Wisconsin, respectively. Average heterozygosity ranged from 0.13 to 0.86 per locus. Since cr...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Pelz-Serrano K,Munguia-Vega A,Piaggio AJ,Neubaum M,Munclinger P,Pártl A,VAN Riper Iii C,Culver M

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe 10 microsatellite loci for Panulirus argus (Caribbean spiny lobster). The number of alleles at each locus ranged from four to 39 (mean = 21.8) in 89 juvenile specimens collected at two different times at a recruitment site in south Florida. Levels of expected and observed heterozygosities ranged from 0.48 ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Tringali MD,Seyoum S,Schmitt SL

更新日期：2008-05-01 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：:DNA barcoding is a molecular method that rapidly identifies an individual to a known taxon or its closest relative based on a 650-bp fragment of the cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI). In this study, DNA barcodes of members of the family Accipitridae, including Haliastur indus (brahminy kite), Haliaeetus leucogaster...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Ong PS,Luczon AU,Quilang JP,Sumaya AM,Ibañez JC,Salvador DJ,Fontanilla IK

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhizoprionodon lalandii and R. porosus are widely distributed along the Atlantic coast of the Americas, living close to coastal areas and therefore frequently captured by seaboard fisheries. However, morphological identification of species in this genus is very difficult, especially when sharks have their heads and fi...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Mendonça FF,Hashimoto DT,Porto-Foresti F,Oliveira C,Gadig OB,Foresti F

更新日期：2009-05-01 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 vast amount of phenotypic information collected in some wild animal populations makes them extremely valuable for unravelling the genetics of ecologically important traits and understanding how populations adapt to changes in their environment. Next generation sequencing has revolutionized the development of large...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Van Bers NE,Santure AW,Van Oers K,De Cauwer I,Dibbits BW,Mateman C,Crooijmans RP,Sheldon BC,Visser ME,Groenen MA,Slate J

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inferring the mode and tempo of natural selection helps further our understanding of adaptation to past environmental changes. Here, we introduce McSwan, a method to detect and date past and recent natural selection events in the case of a hard sweep. The method is based on the comparison of site frequency spectra obt...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Tournebize R,Poncet V,Jakobsson M,Vigouroux Y,Manel S

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA-based identifications have been employed across broad taxonomic ranges and provide an especially useful tool in cases where external identification may be problematic. This study explored the utility of DNA barcoding in resolving skate species found in Atlantic Canadian waters. Most species were clearly resolved, ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Coulson MW,Denti D,Van Guelpen L,Miri C,Kenchington E,Bentzen P

更新日期：2011-11-01 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：: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：:Chimpanzee populations are diminishing as a consequence of human activities, and as a result this species is now endangered. In the context of conservation programmes, genetic data can add vital information, for instance on the genetic diversity and structure of threatened populations. Single nucleotide polymorphisms ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Andrés O,Rönn AC,Bonhomme M,Kellermann T,Crouau-Roy B,Doxiadis G,Verschoor EJ,Goossens B,Domingo-Roura X,Bruford MW,Bosch M,Syvänen AC

更新日期：2008-05-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Microbial fitness is easy to measure in the laboratory, but difficult to measure in the field. Laboratory fitness assays make use of controlled conditions and genetically modified organisms, neither of which are available in the field. Among other applications, fitness assays can help researchers detect adaptation to ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Boynton PJ,Stelkens R,Kowallik V,Greig D

更新日期：2017-05-01 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：: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：: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：:The formation of chimeric sequences can create significant methodological bias in PCR-based DNA metabarcoding analyses. During mixed-template amplification of barcoding regions, chimera formation is frequent and well documented. However, profiling of fungal communities typically uses the more variable rDNA region ITS....

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Bjørnsgaard Aas A,Davey ML,Kauserud H

更新日期：2017-07-01 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