A comparison of single nucleotide polymorphism and microsatellite markers for analysis of parentage and kinship in a cooperatively breeding bird.

abstract：:Publilia concava is an eastern North American membracid commonly occurring in large but spatially patchy aggregations, primarily on the host plant Solidago altissima. Like other myrmecophiles, P. concava provides sugary excretions to ants in return for the various protective, competitive or even sanitary benefits that...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Chhatre V,Morales MA,Abbot P

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two recent articles were written in response to our paper "Breaking RAD: An evaluation of the utility of restriction site associated DNA sequencing scans of adaptation." While we agree with some of the comments made by the authors of these two response papers, we still believe caution should be employed in RADseq stud...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Lowry DB,Hoban S,Kelley JL,Lotterhos KE,Reed LK,Antolin MF,Storfer A

更新日期：2017-05-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:Karyotypic changes in chromosome number and structure are drivers in the divergent evolution of diverse plant species and lineages. This study aimed to reveal the origins of the unique karyotype (2n = 12) and phylogenetic relationships of the genus Megadenia (Brassicaceae). A high-quality chromosome-scale genome was a...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Yang W,Zhang L,Mandáková T,Huang L,Li T,Jiang J,Yang Y,Lysak MA,Liu J,Hu Q

更新日期：2020-11-05 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：: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：:Restriction fragment length polymorphism tools is an R application which supports a complete workflow of polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP), dealing with the problems which accompany analysis when PCR-RFLP is used in diversity studies. Large numbers of different RFLP samples ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Flessa F,Kehl A,Kohl M

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA barcoding has become an important current scientific trend to the understanding of the world biodiversity. In the case of mega-diverse hot spots like Mexico, this technique represents an important tool for taxonomists, allowing them to concentrate in highlighted species by the barcodes instead of analyzing entire ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Elías-Gutiérrez M,León-Regagnon V

更新日期：2013-11-01 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

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：:In order to facilitate the addition of a genetic component to conservation management plans for Georgia false indigo (Amorpha georgiana var. georgiana), a rare legume of the southeastern USA, 12 polymorphic microsatellite markers were developed. No gametic disequilibrium was detected among locus pairs, but observation...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Straub SC,Bogdanowicz SM,Doyle JJ

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, we describe Assemble Species by Automatic Partitioning (ASAP), a new method to build species partitions from single locus sequence alignments (i.e., barcode data sets). ASAP is efficient enough to split data sets as large 104 sequences into putative species in several minutes. Although grounded in evolutionary t...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Puillandre N,Brouillet S,Achaz G

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identification of the juveniles of economically important thrips species on imports by morphology alone can be challenging and culturing is usually required. In the case of EU quarantine species such as Thrips palmi, rapid and accurate identification is essential. DNA barcoding using the Cytochrome oxidase I (COI) gen...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Glover RH,Collins DW,Walsh K,Boonham N

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Microsatellite loci were identified from Cornus kousa'National'. Primer pairs for 86 loci were developed and of these, eight were optimized and screened using genomic DNA from 22 kousa cultivars. All optimized loci were polymorphic and the number of alleles per locus ranged from three to 17. Observed heterozygosity ra...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Wadl PA,Wang X,Scheffler BE,Rinehart TA,Trigiano RN

更新日期：2008-07-01 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：: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 11 polymorphic microsatellite DNA markers for an Australian native plant, Daviesia triflora. The number of alleles per locus in 40 individuals varied from four to 19, and observed and expected heterozygosities ranged from 0.450 to 0.925 and from 0.497 to 0.899, respectively. Nine loci showed no significan...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： He T,Krauss SL,Lamont BB

更新日期：2008-11-01 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：: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：:Stegodyphus lineatus spiders live in groups consisting of closely related individuals. There appears to be no discrimination against related individuals as mates but females mate multiply, despite the fact that matings are shown to carry a cost. We have developed eight polymorphic dinucleotide microsatellite markers t...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Bilde T,Tuni C,Cariani A,Santini A,Tabarroni C,Garoia F,Goodacre SL

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifteen polymorphic markers were developed from a microsatellite-enriched library for the lizard Podarcis gaigeae. The loci were checked for variability in 68 individuals from a population on the island of Skyros, Greece. The number of alleles ranged from 3 to 23 per locus and expected heterozygosity from 0.29 and 0.9...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Wellenreuther M,Runemark A,Svensson EI,Hansson B

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR) is slowly becoming established as a tool to quantify abundance of different arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal (AMF) taxa in roots and in soil. Here, we describe the development and field validation of qPCR markers (i.e. primers with associated hydrolysis probes), targeting taxon-specific ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Thonar C,Erb A,Jansa J

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00