Identification and validation of single nucleotide polymorphisms as tools to detect hybridization and population structure in freshwater stingrays.

abstract：:Inventory of the caterpillars, their food plants and parasitoids began in 1978 for today's Area de Conservacion Guanacaste (ACG), in northwestern Costa Rica. This complex mosaic of 120 000 ha of conserved and regenerating dry, cloud and rain forest over 0-2000 m elevation contains at least 10 000 species of non-leaf-m...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Janzen DH,Hallwachs W,Blandin P,Burns JM,Cadiou JM,Chacon I,Dapkey T,Deans AR,Epstein ME,Espinoza B,Franclemont JG,Haber WA,Hajibabaei M,Hall JP,Hebert PD,Gauld ID,Harvey DJ,Hausmann A,Kitching IJ,Lafontaine D,Lan

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Germplasm collections provide an extremely valuable resource for breeders and researchers. However, misclassification of accessions by species often hinders the effective use of these collections. We propose that use of high-throughput genotyping tools can provide a fast, efficient and cost-effective way of confirming...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Mason AS,Zhang J,Tollenaere R,Vasquez Teuber P,Dalton-Morgan J,Hu L,Yan G,Edwards D,Redden R,Batley J

更新日期：2015-09-01 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：:DNA barcodes are useful tools to identify and discover new species in a wide range of taxa. Here, we report the first barcode study of monogonont rotifers from fresh and brackish waters in Mexico, and discuss the taxonomic implications of this work. We used DNA barcodes based on the sequence of cytochrome oxidase I to...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： García-Morales AE,Elías-Gutiérrez M

更新日期：2013-11-01 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：:To characterize microbiomes and other ecological assemblages, ecologists routinely sequence and compare loci that differ among focal taxa. Counts of these sequences convey information regarding the occurrence and relative abundances of taxa, but provide no direct measure of their absolute abundances, due to the techni...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Harrison JG,John Calder W,Shuman B,Alex Buerkle C

更新日期：2021-01-01 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：:Tracing maternal and paternal lineages independently to explore breeding systems and dispersal strategies in natural populations has been high on the wish-list of evolutionary biologists. As males are the heterogametic sex in mammals, such sex-specific patterns can be indirectly observed when Y chromosome polymorphism...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Greminger MP,Krützen M,Schelling C,Pienkowska-Schelling A,Wandeler P

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our understanding of Glossina fuscipes fuscipes, a major vector of sleeping sickness, has been severely constrained by a lack of genetic markers for mapping and population genetic studies. Here we present 10 newly developed microsatellite loci for this tsetse species. Heterozygosity levels in Moyo, an Ugandan populati...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Brown JE,Komatsu KJ,Abila PP,Robinson AS,Okedi LM,Dyer N,Donnelly MJ,Slotman MA,Caccone A

更新日期：2008-11-01 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：: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：:Crepidula convexa, a calyptreid gastropod with direct embryonic development, changes sex from male to female in the course of its lifetime (protandry). Under sex-allocation theory, male reproductive success should be independent from age and size (a proxy used for age). However, this may be counterbalanced by female c...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Daguin-Thiébaut C,LE Cam S,Viard F

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article documents the whole genome sequence information of the Indian Zaprionus indianus, a member of the fruit fly family Drosophilidae. The sequences were generated on an Illumina platform and reads and whole genome sequence submitted to NCBI to the SRA and BioProject databases, respectively. This is the first ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Khanna R,Mohanty S

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequence-based specimen identification, known as DNA barcoding, is a common method complementing traditional morphology-based taxonomic assignments. The fundamental resource in DNA barcoding is the availability of a taxonomically reliable sequence database to use as a reference for sequence comparisons. Here, we provi...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Barco A,Raupach MJ,Laakmann S,Neumann H,Knebelsberger T

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long a major focus of genetic research and breeding, sunflowers (Helianthus) are emerging as an increasingly important experimental system for ecological and evolutionary studies. Here, we review the various attributes of wild and domesticated sunflowers that make them valuable for ecological experimentation and descr...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Kane NC,Burke JM,Marek L,Seiler G,Vear F,Baute G,Knapp SJ,Vincourt P,Rieseberg LH

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optimal integration of next-generation sequencing into mainstream research requires re-evaluation of how problems can be reasonably overcome and what questions can be asked. One potential application is the rapid acquisition of genomic information to identify microsatellite loci for evolutionary, population genetic an...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Castoe TA,Poole AW,Gu W,Jason de Koning AP,Daza JM,Smith EN,Pollock DD

更新日期：2010-03-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Palaeoenvironments and former climates are typically inferred from pollen and macrofossil records. This approach is time-consuming and suffers from low taxonomic resolution and biased taxon sampling. Here, we test an alternative DNA-based approach utilizing the P6 loop in the chloroplast trnL (UAA) intron; a short (13...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Sønstebø JH,Gielly L,Brysting AK,Elven R,Edwards M,Haile J,Willerslev E,Coissac E,Rioux D,Sannier J,Taberlet P,Brochmann C

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing numbers of phylogeographic studies make comparative inferences about the histories of co-distributed species. Although the aims of such studies are best achieved by jointly analysing sequences from multiple loci in a model-based framework, such data currently exist for few nonmodel systems. We used existing...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Lohse K,Sharanowski B,Blaxter M,Nicholls JA,Stone GN

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe primers and polymerase chain reaction conditions to amplify 22 microsatellite loci from the Barrow's goldeneye (Bucephala islandica). The primers were tested on 27 individuals from a population breeding in British Columbia, Canada. The developed primer pairs yielded an average of 6.11 alleles per locus (ra...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Jaari S,Jaatinen K,Merilä J

更新日期：2009-05-01 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：:Betel nut (Areca nut, Areca catechu L.) is a conspicuous and important cultivated plant of tropical and subtropical habitats throughout Southeast Asia and Oceania. As a significant cultural and social offering, the migration of betel nut associated with human dispersal is an important issue in ethnobotany and anthropo...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Hu CH,Huang CC,Hung KH,Hsu TW,Chiang TY

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A variety of research projects focus on genetic variation among and within maternal lineages as encompassed by mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). While mtDNA often differs substantially between species, large differences may also be found within species. The evaluation of such divergent lineages, for example in intraspecific ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Lindell J,Murphy RW

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：:Stylosanthes capitata is an important tropical pasture legume. Knowledge of genetic diversity and structure of S. capitata populations is of great importance for the conservation and germplasm management of this species. Thus, eight microsatellite markers were developed from an S. capitata-enriched library. They were ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Santos MO,Sassaki RP,Chiari L,Resende RM,DE Souza AP

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：:Oestrogenic wastewater treatment works (WwTW) effluents discharged into UK rivers have been shown to affect sexual development, including inducing intersex, in wild roach (Rutilus rutilus). This can result in a reduced breeding capability with potential population level impacts. In the absence of a sex probe for roach...

journal_title：Molecular ecology resources

authors： Lange A,Paris JR,Gharbi K,Cézard T,Miyagawa S,Iguchi T,Studholme DJ,Tyler CR

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00