QST-FST comparisons with unbalanced half-sib designs.

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：: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：:Type specimens have high scientific importance because they provide the only certain connection between the application of a Linnean name and a physical specimen. Many other individuals may have been identified as a particular species, but their linkage to the taxon concept is inferential. Because type specimens are o...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Prosser SW,deWaard JR,Miller SE,Hebert PD

更新日期：2016-03-01 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：:The interbreeding of individuals coming from genetically differentiated but incompletely isolated populations can lead to the formation of admixed populations, having important implications in ecology and evolution. In this simulation study, we evaluate how individual admixture proportions estimated by the software st...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Toyama KS,Crochet PA,Leblois R

更新日期：2020-11-01 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：:Thirteen polymorphic microsatellite markers were isolated and characterized from the great hornbill, Buceros bicornis. In analyses of 20 individuals, the numbers of alleles per locus varied from two to 11. The expected and observed heterozygosities ranged from 0.22 to 0.88 and from 0.20 to 1.00, respectively. The mean...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Chamutpong S,Saito DS,Viseshakul N,Nishiumi I,Poonswad P,Ponglikitmongkol M

更新日期：2009-03-01 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：:Data on hundreds or thousands of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) provide detailed information about the relationships between individuals, but currently few tools can turn this information into a multigenerational pedigree. I present the r package sequoia, which assigns parents, clusters half-siblings sharing a...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Huisman J

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The three-toed sloths (Bradypus) are slow-moving arboreal neotropical mammals. Understanding demographic variables (such as sex ratio) of populations is a key for conservation purposes. Nevertheless, gender assignment of Bradypus is particularly challenging because of the lack of sexual dimorphism in infants and in ad...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Martinelli AB,DE Moraes-Barros N,Alvarenga CS,Chaves PB,Santos LA,Fagundes V

更新日期：2010-07-01 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：:This article documents the addition of 153 microsatellite marker loci to the Molecular Ecology Resources Database. Loci were developed for the following species: Brassica oleracea, Brycon amazonicus, Dimorphandra wilsonii, Eupallasella percnurus, Helleborus foetidus, Ipomoea purpurea, Phrynops geoffroanus, Prochilodus...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Molecular Ecology Resources Primer Development Consortium.,Aksoy S,Almeida-Val VM,Azevedo VC,Baucom R,Bazaga P,Beheregaray LB,Bennetzen JL,Brassaloti RA,Burgess TI,Caccone A,Chang SM,Ciampi AY,Ciancaleoni S,Clímaco GT,Cloue

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GONe is a user-friendly, Windows-based program for estimating effective size (N(e) ) in populations with overlapping generations. It uses the Jorde-Ryman modification to the temporal method to account for age structure in populations. This method requires estimates of age-specific survival and birth rate and allele fr...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Coombs JA,Letcher BH,Nislow KH

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mites (Acari) are one of the most diverse groups of life on Earth; yet, their evolutionary relationships are poorly understood. Also, the resolution of broader arachnid phylogeny has been hindered by an underrepresentation of mite diversity in phylogenomic analyses. To further our understanding of Acari evolution, we ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Van Dam MH,Trautwein M,Spicer GS,Esposito L

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Caribbean reef-building corals in the genus Acropora have been declining dramatically since the 1980s and are now listed as threatened. The study of their complex reproductive system (mixed asexual and sexual) and their population structure requires highly polymorphic nuclear genetic markers. Of eight previously devel...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Baums IB,Devlin-Durante MK,Brown L,Pinzón JH

更新日期：2009-07-01 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：: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：: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：:Solms-laubachia eurycarpa is a medicinal herb endemic to the Hengduan Mountains region of south-central China. We screened a partial genomic library enriched for microsatellites and characterized 10 polymorphic loci for S. eurycarpa. The number of alleles per locus ranged from five to 15, with an average of 9.6. The o...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Yue J,Feldheim KA,Sun H,Ree R

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report an accurate multiplex reverse transcription quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) assay, capable of reproducing gene expression profiles from 16 target genes [12 genes of interest (GOIs) and four reference genes (RGs)] in Acropora millepora, a common reef-building model coral species. The 12 GOIs ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Souter P,Bay LK,Andreakis N,Császár N,Seneca FO,van Oppen MJ

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The almendro (Dipteryx panamensis, Fabaceae) is a tetraploid tree native to the Atlantic lowland rainforests of Central America. We present nine microsatellite primer pairs amplified in three multiplexed reactions for 549 individuals from four sites in Costa Rica. All loci were polymorphic, ranging from three to 13 al...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Hanson TR,Brunsfeld SJ,Finegan B,Waits LP

更新日期：2008-03-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:This study reports the isolation and characterization of 11 polymorphic microsatellites from a sand smelt (Atherina boyeri) genomic library. Enrichment was performed with di-, tri- and tetranucleotide motifs following the FIASCO procedure (fast isolation by AFLP of sequences containing repeats). All loci were found to...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Milana V,Sola L,Rossi AR,Barbisan F,Congiu L

更新日期：2009-05-01 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：:The pygmy grasshopper Tetrix japonica is a common insect distributed throughout the world, and it has the potential for use in studies of body colour polymorphism, genomics and the biology of Tetrigoidea (Insecta: Orthoptera). However, limited biological information is available for this insect. Here, we conducted a d...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Qiu Z,Liu F,Lu H,Huang Y

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Honeybee subspecies have been affected by human activities in Europe over the past few decades. One such example is the importation of nonlocal subspecies of bees which has had an adverse impact on the geographical repartition and subsequently on the genetic diversity of the black honeybee Apis mellifera mellifera. To...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Bertrand B,Alburaki M,Legout H,Moulin S,Mougel F,Garnery L

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a total of 50 microsatellite markers for the three fungal pathogens causing the most important leaf spot diseases of banana: 32 loci for Mycosphaerella fijiensis are presented, and nine loci each for Mycosphaerella musicola and Mycosphaerella eumusae. All these loci were polymorphic within each species on...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Zapater MF,Duchemin M,Dussart JF,Coste D,Brottier P,Carlier J

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00