... used in forest management In the Iberian Peninsula cork oak is mainly used for manufacture of bottle stoppers, which is indispensable to the wine industry In Spain, the total cork production in ... fingerprint of the selected elite-trees and to determine their genetic relationship This was done within the context of a breeding programme aimed at obtain clonal lines with commercial interest ... carried out in a PE-9600 thermal cycler (PE Applied Biosystems) following the conditions as Geneticvariabilityin cork oak elite trees 775 Table II ISSR primer sequences, annealing temperature,...
... 21 polymorphic genetic systems (hemoglobin, transferrin and the 19 remaining blood factors, see table IV) yielding 44 variables Figure shows the projections (’envelopes’ joining points of extreme ... (see table I) In small founder populations, loss of genetic information is expected due to genetic bottlenecks and subsequent inbreeding Nevertheless, a clear reduction ingeneticvariability was ... differences in haemoglobins and quantitative variation of mouflon haemopexin Comp Biochem Physiol 90, 159-162 Nguyen TC, Stuwe M, Scribner KT (1989) Low geneticvariabilityin reintroduced alpine ibex...
... ancestors, leading to large biases when estimating the rate of inbreeding Moreover, domestic populations are more or less strongly selected: in this case, the links between inbreeding and geneticvariability ... for predicting the change ingeneticvariability long time period, when the inbreeding increase fully reflects the number and the choice of breeding animals in the previous generations In contrast, ... matings, with only 15% artificial insemination More detailed results, including all the main French dairy breeds, will be presented elsewhere The pedigree information was better in Limousine...
... significant enough to result in a drastic reconditioning of the gene pool of the new colony resulting in a genetic revolution More or less in the same line of thinking ARSON C (1971) believes ... further geneticvariabilityin a very short time II Material and methods Two strains of Drosophila melanogaster were used : the wild laboratory strain, Oregon, previously maintained in our laboratory, ... a These different opinions on the genetic evolution of populations derived from a few founders mainly take into account the geneticvariability which is originally present in the founders and...
... predisposing to Gram-positive sepsis Proinflammatory cytokines α Tumor necrosis factor-α TNF-α is a critical cytokine in the inflammatory response to infection [17] Accordingly, any geneticvariability ... problem in interpreting the finding of an association between a polymorphism and a clinical outcome is demonstrated in the study conducted by Schluter and colleagues [43] Despite the positive findings ... indicating that IL1-Ra is likely to play a key role in protection against the adverse effects of an inflammatory response 312 Intron of IL-1Ra contains a variable 86-bp tandem repeat containing...
... of potential indirect criteria for predicting RFI: weight loss during feed deprivation and weight gain during re-feeding Isogenic clonal lines have been successfully developed in rainbow trout ... explained by genetic variations is significantly different from 0, confirming that, when used in combination, they are pertinent indirect criteria for selection We have shown that geneticvariability ... In a recent study involving six different strains of rainbow trout reared in individual aquaria, voluntary intake was measured by accurate visual observation of the pellets ingested by each fish...
... selection indices by in ating genetic parameters [14, 20, 37] or by decreasing the weight of familial information vs the weight of individual information [11, 20, 34, 41] or by including penalties ... inbreeding by including genetic relationships in selection decisions, Theor Appl Genet 91 (1995) 421–431 [5] Brisbane J.R., Gibson J.P., Balancing selection response and rate inbreeding by including ... enhance genetic gains by several tens of %, reasoning at the same level of inbreeding coefficients More rarely [31], authors have proposed to optimize inbreeding for a certain level of desired genetic...
... cultivated in Ghana 2.5 Genetic divergence The evaluation of geneticvariability using quantitative traits has been of major significance in many contexts particularly, in distinguishing well defined ... and hairpins (palindromes (complementary) within themselves This is to obviate the folding back of the primers resulting in stable intrastand structure which could inhibit primer annealing to the ... highly polymorphic in nature (high information content) and excellent genetic markers for many types of investigations, including marker assisted selection and fingerprinting of germplasm collections...
... co-culture which had been maintained in A549 cells since 1996 Isolate F89336 serves as a reference strain within the Washington NPRC In the other subtypes, isolates obtained from different primate ... cloning, these differences would not reflect Taq polymerase errors Genetic variation of SRV-2 within an individual infected macaque In order to determine the genetic variation of SRV-2 within ... proteolytic processing during a maturation process that results in the expression of the mature membrane-bound glycoprotein integrated within the virion envelope The envelope glycoprotein interacts with...
... co-culture which had been maintained in A549 cells since 1996 Isolate F89336 serves as a reference strain within the Washington NPRC In the other subtypes, isolates obtained from different primate ... cloning, these differences would not reflect Taq polymerase errors Genetic variation of SRV-2 within an individual infected macaque In order to determine the genetic variation of SRV-2 within ... proteolytic processing during a maturation process that results in the expression of the mature membrane-bound glycoprotein integrated within the virion envelope The envelope glycoprotein interacts with...
... [15] In addition to speech recognition, dynamic time warping has also been found useful in many other disciplines, including data mining, gesture recognition, robotics, manufacturing, and medicine ... found that the main modes of variation for the walking action obtained from PCA explain the combined motion of both the legs and the arms, while in the bending action they mainly correspond to ... Future research lines rely on obtaining the joint positions directly from image sequences Previously, the action model has been successfully used in a probabilistic tracking framework for estimating...
... respectively Even the bovine PRNP coding region, which has low genetic variability, is not as conserved as the chamois PRNP coding region The PRNP genetics in European wild ruminants raises interest not ... wild ruminant species due to the interaction of different hosts to agent-strain combinations In conclusion, the genetic analysis carried out in the present study shows that European wild ruminants ... (E→Q) have been described in Chinese and Korean captive sikadeer (Cervus nippon) [11,12] PRNP geneticvariabilityin European wild ruminants has not been thoroughly investigated, but the identification...
... quite inefficient in moving the mean towards the target The selection is nevertheless very efficient in decreasing the variance In contrast the likelihood-based indices show a fast increase in the ... breeding values and phenotype (or index) is nonlinear? In the traditional linear case, let us denote µk + ui the estimated index of animal i in environment k Evidently, the ranks ˆ ˆ of these indices ... LhetU indices, shows a reduction in phenotypic variance Since data are discrete, the link between the mean and variance is so strong that the underlying genetic progress in v, which is indeed...
... similar to those obtained in the LW breed, thus indicating that genetic parameters did not widely differ between genetic types RESULTS Genetic type marginal means are shown in table II LW animals ... puberty in pigs In: 43rd Annual Meeting of the EAAP, Madrid, Spain, September 1992, Commission on Animal Genetics Groeneveld E (1993) Estimating (co)variances for joint genetic evaluations In: Proc ... generalized computing procedure for setting up and solving mixed linear models J Dairy Sci 73, 513-531 Haley CS, Lee GJ (1992) Genetic factors contributing to variation in litter size in British Large...
... Health Research Funding [6] They have three key interlinked functions: conducting high quality applied health research; implementing the findings from researchin clinical practice; and increasing ... Type Examples Knowledge brokers Clinical managers Clinicians involved in management Clinicians involved inresearch Clinicians involved in quality improvement Internal facilitators (e.g., knowledge ... targets, or clinical guidelines can become a barrier to successful collaboration by legitimising interprofessional differences, reinforcing existing power structures, and maintaining occupational...
... include sensing and interpreting new evidence, integrating it with existing evidence; reinforcement (or not) by professional networks, which in turn is mediated by local context [23], including ... practice, ways of thinking or behaviour resulting from the process of learning that occurs from being involved inresearch [26,70-72] This proposal has been developed by a team including participants ... implementation research agenda and recommended sustained and strategic investment inresearch and infrastructure aimed at increasing our capability and capacity to maximise the impact of health research...
... three related objectives, namely: conducting high-quality applied health research; implementing the findings from researchin clinical practice; and increasing the capacity of National Health Service ... collaborative approach, with time and effort being invested in building relationships and creating networks for learning and sharing information Page of 12 Individuals in designated roles to lead and facilitate ... expertise in action research A cooperative inquiry is a particular type of action research, whereby participants are treated as ‘coresearchers’ and participate in the ‘thinking’ and ‘doing’ of research...
... staff in the trusts become involved in undertaking research studies or in applying the findings, we will be investigating the extent to which this changes the way the trusts use researchin their ... detailing) Within the CLAHRC, we refer to these approaches as implementation, an activity focused on getting research into practice Translation, in contrast, is an overarching process in which researchers ... approach to implementation as part of research translation; and increase local capacity inappliedresearch It has a combination of four inter-related appliedresearch themes and an implementation...
... staff in the trusts become involved in undertaking research studies or in applying the findings, we will be investigating the extent to which this changes the way the trusts use researchin their ... detailing) Within the CLAHRC, we refer to these approaches as implementation, an activity focused on getting research into practice Translation, in contrast, is an overarching process in which researchers ... approach to implementation as part of research translation; and increase local capacity inappliedresearch It has a combination of four inter-related appliedresearch themes and an implementation...
... Rodriguez-Gallego C: Mannose-binding lectin and mannose-binding lectin-associated serine protease in susceptibility, severity, and outcome of pneumonia in adults J Allergy Clin Immunol 2008, 122:368-374 ... Kaczmarski EB, Klein NJ, Read RC: Genetic polymorphism of the binding domain of surfactant protein-A2 increases susceptibility to meningococcal disease Clin Infect Dis 2006, 43:1426-1433 Rọmet ... protein A and surfactant protein D in airway inflammation J Allergy Clin Immunol 2008, 122:861-879 LeVine AM, Whitsett JA: Pulmonary collectins and innate host defense of the lung Microbes Infect...