Can plant DNA barcoding be implemented in species-rich tropical regions? A perspective from São Paulo State, Brazil.

abstract：:The applicability of mitochondrial nad6 sequences to studies of DNA and population variability in Lepidoptera was tested in four species of economically important moths and one of wild butterflies. The genetic information so obtained was compared to that of cox1 sequences for two species of Lepidoptera. nad6 primers a...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Silva-Brandão KL,Lyra ML,Santos TV,Seraphim N,Albernaz KC,Pavinato VA,Martinelli S,Cônsoli FL,Omoto C

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:B chromosomes are supernumerary elements present in about 15% of eukaryotic species and are most frequently heterochromatic, behave parasitically, show a transmission rate higher than standard (A) chromosomes, and can provoke harmful effects on carriers. In the current work, Prochilodus lineatus individuals carrying e...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Voltolin TA,Senhorini JA,Foresti F,Bortolozzi J,Porto-Foresti F

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tsetse flies are responsible for the transmission of Trypanossoma sp. to vertebrate animals in Africa causing huge health issues and economic loss. The availability of the genome sequence of Glossina morsitans enabled the discovery of several genes related to medically important phenotypes and novel physiological feat...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Freitas L,Mesquita RD,Schrago CG

更新日期：2020-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Lupinus albescens is a resistant cover plant that establishes symbiotic relationships with bacteria belonging to the Bradyrhizobium genus. This symbiosis helps the development of these plants in adverse environmental conditions, such as the ones found in arenized areas of Southern Brazil. This work studied three Brady...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Granada CE,Vargas LK,Sant'Anna FH,Balsanelli E,Baura VA,Oliveira Pedrosa F,Souza EM,Falcon T,Passaglia LMP

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary cancer risk assessment is a multidisciplinary and dynamic process, with the purpose of estimating probabilities of germline mutations in cancer susceptibility genes and assessing empiric risks of cancer based on personal and family histories, in order to offer clinical and molecular diagnoses and clinical m...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Gomy I,Diz Mdel P

更新日期：2016-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The function of gene body DNA methylation in alternative splicing, and its relation to disease pathogenesis is not fully elucidated. The gene for familial Mediterranean fever (MEFV) encodes the pyrin protein and contains a 998 bp CpG island, covering the second exon, which is differentially methylated in FMF patients ...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Erdem GC,Erdemir S,Abaci I,Aydin AKK,Everest E,Turanli ET

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SPLs are plant-specific transcription factors that play important regulatory roles in plant growth and development. Systematic analysis of the SPL family has been performed in numerous plants, such as Arabidopsis, rice, and Populus. However, no comparative analysis has been performed across different species to examin...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Peng X,Wang Q,Zhao Y,Li X,Ma Q

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to estimate the components of variance and genetic parameters for the visual scores which constitute the Morphological Evaluation System (MES), such as body structure (S), precocity (P) and musculature (M) in Nellore beef-cattle at the weaning and yearling stages, by using threshold Bayesian ...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： de Faria CU,Koury W Jr,Magnabosco CU,de Albuquerque LG,Bezerra LA,Lôbo RB

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oral Lichen Planus (OLP) is an oral inflammatory condition, mediated by host immune system reaction, presenting basal membrane damages with inflammatory lesions in the mouth and/or skin. In this study, the role of functional polymorphisms in the MBL2 gene, encoding for Mannose-Binding Protein C (MBP-C), a member of th...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Polesello V,Segat L,Biasotto M,Ottaviani G,Gobbo M,Di Lenarda R,Crovella S,Zupin L

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A wide array of molecular markers has been used to investigate the genetic diversity among common bean species. However, the best combination of markers for studying such diversity among common bean cultivars has yet to be determined. Few reports have examined the genetic diversity of the carioca bean, commercially on...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Küpper Cardoso Perseguini JM,Chioratto AF,Zucchi MI,Colombo CA,Carbonell SA,Costa Mondego JM,Gazaffi R,Franco Garcia AA,de Campos T,de Souza AP,Rubiano LB

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The usefulness of IRAP (inter-retrotransposon amplified polymorphism) and ITS-RFLP (restriction of PCR-amplified internal transcribed spacers of the rDNA) markers in the analysis of 39 Pyrenophora graminea isolates was determined. Each marker system could discriminate between all of the isolates in detecting polymorph...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Zein I,Jawhar M,Arabi MI

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven polymorphic microsatellite loci were isolated and characterized for the snakehead murrel, Channa striata (Channidae), a valuable tropical freshwater fish species. Among 25 specimens collected from Kedah state in Malaysia, the number of alleles per locus ranged from 2 to 7. Observed and expected heterozygosities ...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Jamsari AF,Min-Pau T,Siti-Azizah MN

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The roots of the understorey shrub Carapichea ipecacuanha (ipecac) have medicinal properties, and the uprooting of wild plants has supplied most of the world demand for this species. Although under severe population decline, C. ipecacuanha lacks legal protection. In the wild, the aerial stems of ipecac clump together ...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： de Oliveira LO,Venturini BA,Rossi AA,Hastenreiter SS

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we investigated the influence of two SNPs (rs846910 and rs12086634) of the HSD11B1 gene that encodes 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1(11β-HSD1), the enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of cortisol to cortisone, on variables associated with obesity and metabolic syndrome in 215 individuals of bot...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Turek LV,Leite N,Rodrigues Souza RL,Lima JK,Milano GE,Timossi Lda S,Osiecki AC,Osiecki R,Alle LF

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhagomys rufescens (Rodentia: Sigmodontinae) is an endemic species of the Atlantic forest from Southern and Southeastern Brazil. Some authors consider Rhagomys as part of the tribe Thomasomyini; but its phylogenetic relationships remain unclear. Chromosomal studies on eight specimens of Rhagomys rufescens revealed a d...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Testoni AF,Althoff SL,Nascimento AP,Steiner-Souza F,Sbalqueiro IJ

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human longevity is a polygenic and multifactorial trait. Pathways related to lifespan are complex and involve molecular, cellular, and environmental processes. In this analytical observational study, we evaluated the relationship between environment factors, oxidative stress status, DNA integrity level, and the associ...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Silva-Sena GG,Camporez D,Santos LRD,Silva ASD,Sagrillo Pimassoni LH,Tieppo A,Pimentel Batitucci MDC,Morelato RL,Paula F

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sample preparation is a critical step in two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (2-DE) of plant tissues. Here we describe a phenol/SDS procedure that, although greatly simplified, produced well-resolved and reproducible 2-DE profiles of protein extracts from soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merril] roots. Extractions were made ...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Rodrigues EP,Torres AR,da Silva Batista JS,Huergo L,Hungria M

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to investigate whether treatment with electroacupuncture (EA) inhibited mitochondria-dependent apoptosis in annulus fibrosis (AF) cells in a rat model of cervical intervertebral disc degradation induced by unbalanced dynamic and static forces. Forty Sprague-Dawley rats were used in this s...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Liao J,Ke M,Xu T,Lin L

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Screening of mutations that cause β-thalassaemia in the Bangladeshi population led to the identification of a patient with a combination of two rare mutations, Hb Monroe and HBB: -92 C > G. The β-thalassaemia major male individual was transfusion-dependent and had an atypical β-globin gene cluster haplotype. Of the tw...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Moosa MM,Ayub MI,Bashar AE,Sarwardi G,Khan W,Khan H,Yeasmin S

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the polymorphism C242T of the aromatase gene (Cyp19) and its allelic frequency, as well as the effect of the variants on productive and reproductive traits in 71 purebred Santa Inês sheep, 13 purebred Brazilian Somali sheep, nine purebred Poll Dorset sheep, and 18 crossbred 1/2 Dorper sheep. The animals ...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Lôbo AM,Lôbo RN,Paiva SR

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic variation was estimated in ten samples populations of Aedes aegypti from the Brazilian Amazon, by using a 380 bp fragment of the mitochocondrial NADH dehydrogenase subunit 4 (ND4) gene. A total of 123 individuals were analyzed, whereby 13 haplotypes were found. Mean genetic diversity was slightly high (h = 0.6...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Lima RS Jr,Scarpassa VM

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitamin D exerts an immuno-modulatory activity on several immune system cells through the vitamin D receptor (VDR). Herein, we verified that age and a therapeutic regimen containing protease inhibitors are associated with failures in antiretroviral therapies (ARVs). In addition, we assessed whether a VDR SNP (rs115688...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Silva RCD,Alves NMP,Pereira JJS,Coelho AVC,Arraes LC,Brandão LAC,Crovella S,Silva JA

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A detailed study of putative recombination events and their evolution frequency in the whole genome of the currently known members of the family Tombusviridae, comprising 79 accessions retrieved from the international databases, was carried out by using the RECCO and RDP version 3.31β algorithms. The first program all...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Boulila M

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to use gene chips to investigate differential gene expression profiles in the occurrence and development of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). The study included 12 AMI patients and 12 healthy individuals. Total mRNA of peripheral bloodwas extracted and reversed-transcribed to cDNA for microarray anal...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Fan L,Meng H,Guo X,Li X,Meng F

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue samples from mosquitoes artificially infected with Zika virus and shown to be positive by RT-qPCR were reexamined by RT-PCR. Using these samples we compared the two methods employed in virus RNA detection for vector competence studies. Results demonstrated that, albeit useful, RT-PCR gave false negatives with l...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Paiva MHS,Guedes DRD,Leal WS,Ayres CFJ

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Meiotic and mitotic chromosomes of Dichotomius nisus, D. semisquamosus and D. sericeus were analyzed after conventional staining, C-banding and silver nitrate staining. In addition, Dichotomius nisus and D. semisquamosus chromosomes were also analyzed after fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) with an rDNA probe. ...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： da Silva GM,Bione EG,Cabral-de-Mello DC,de Moura Rde C,Simões ZL,de Souza MJ

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The common everyday use of medicinal plants is an ancient, and still very widespread practice, whereby the need for studies on their possible toxicity and mutagenic properties. The species Coccoloba mollis has been much used in phytotherapy, mainly in cases involving loss of memory and stress. In order to investigate ...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Tsuboy MS,Marcarini JC,Ferreira DT,Ferraz ER,Chequer FM,de Oliveira DP,Ribeiro LR,Mantovani MS

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood methylated cell-free DNA (cfDNA) as a minimally invasive cancer biomarker has great importance in cancer management. Guanylate binding protein 2 (GBP2) has been considered as a possible controlling factor in tumor development. GBP2 gene expression and its promoter methylation status in both plasma cfDNA and tumo...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Rahvar F,Salimi M,Mozdarani H

更新日期：2020-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Rabies is a fatal zoonotic infection of the central nervous system of mammals and has been known to humans for millennia. The etiological agent, is a neurotropic RNA virus in the order Mononegavirales, family Rhabdoviridae, genus Lyssavirus. There are currently accepted to be two cycles for rabies transmission: the ur...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Oliveira RN,Freire CC,Iamarino A,Zanotto PM,Pessoa R,Sanabani SS,Souza SP,Castilho JG,Batista HBCR,Carnieli P Jr,Macedo CI,Watanabe JT,Brandão PE

更新日期：2020-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Sickle cell anemia is a genetic disease with high prevalence in people of African descent. There are five typical haplotypes associated with this disease and the haplotypes associated with the beta-globin gene cluster have been used to establish the origin of African-descendant people in America. In this work, we dete...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Fong C,Lizarralde-Iragorri MA,Rojas-Gallardo D,Barreto G

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00