... Chapter Genetic Diversity, Habitat Fragmentation and Epigenetic Variations 61 Josphert N Kimatu, Geoffrey M Muluvi and Bao Liu Chapter Plant Self- Incompatibility: Or, Self- InductionofPopulationGenetic ... population structure ofgenetic resources is necessary for the development of strategies for appropriate conservation ofgeneticdiversity Therefore, in recent decades a primary activity in genetic ... synapomorphy on the cladogram) In other words, maximizing PD when selecting a subset ofgeneticdiversity to conserve or to explore for genetic resources is a way of maximizing the amount of hierarchical...
... target species are the most important in terms ofgeneticdiversity for the creation of a genetic reserve or a network ofgenetic reserves Since the focus is on geneticdiversity within a single taxon, ... companies or trusts, i.e declared and run by an individual landowner, nonprofit organization (e.g NGO), university or cooperative or for-profit organization (e.g individual or corporate landowners); ... networks of protected areas offer ideal protection for all biodiversity, if the goal is in situ conservation of plant genetic diversity, experience thus far has shown that the establishment of genetic...
... Part of the computation for the project was performed at the Center for High Performance Computing, University of Utah Author details Department of Human Genetics, Eccles Institute of Human Genetics, ... efforts In addition, our results strongly support the existence of an ancestral Eurasian population that remained separated from African populations for a long period of time before a major population ... multiple waves of human migrations [3,9,33] Because of its long history of human settlement and its enormous social, linguistic, and cultural diversity, the population history of India has long...
... actors and the elder Kno'well first in the dramatis personae, that Shakespeare took that particular part The order of a list of Elizabethan players was generally that of their importance or priority ... the word "humour" seems to have been employed in the Jonsonian sense by Chapman before Jonson's use of it Indeed, the comedy of humours itself is only a heightened variety of the comedy of manners ... known for his "Comparative Discourse of our English Poets with the Greek, Latin, and Italian Poets," printed in 1598, and for his mention therein of a dozen plays of Shakespeare by title accords...
... account for the promiscuity of S100 proteins Therefore, systematic studies of the conformational changes and oligomerization of S100 proteins will be of critical importance in the development of potential ... [17,33,34] Metal ions as modulators of S100 conformation and stability The metal-binding properties of S100 proteins have a pivotal influence as modulators of their conformation, folding, oligomerization ... Amyloid formation by S100A8 ⁄ A9 proteins in the ageing prostate (A) Corpora amylacea deposits extracted as a result of prostatectomy (ruler is shown in centimetres) (B) Co-immunostaining of corpora...
... Hawaii, USA Orange juice concentrate, Georgia, USA T of Hanseniaspora meligeri ST of Hanseniaspora apuliensis ST of H guilliermondii T of Kloeckera apis 213, CBS 8772) T, T T of T of T ofof Pseudosaccharomyces ... Indies Flower of Trifolium repens, Germany Cider, UK Patent (Takeda Chemicals Industries) Pineapple juice concentrate, Georgia, USA ofofofof 212) T of Kloeckeraspora uvarum T of Pseudosaccharomyces ... uvarum are genetically rather uniform and they correlated the close genetic relatedness with the in£uence of humans on their dispersal and consequently the lack of genetically distinct populations...
... the functional diversityof RYMV isolates on silencing suppression The functional diversity at the scale of virion is not correlated to geneticdiversityof the P1 protein suppressor In addition, ... suppressor protein [9] Different P1s representative of the viral diversity were cloned under control of the CaMV 35S promoter This was done in order to determine whether the sequence diversityof ... that the accumulation and geneticdiversityof the P1 suppressor protein were not correlated to heterogeneity in the reversion of GUS activity that we observed Effect of ectopic P1 protein expression...
... the fileds In order to clarify the origin of wakegi onion collection from Vietnam and to evaluate Vietnamese wakegi onion strains as genetic resource for future breeding of onions, genetic variation ... ml of a blocking buffer (4 × SSC containing 10 mM MgSO4, 0.1% Tween 20, 3% bovine serum albumin) for 15 at 37o C, and incubated with 50 ml of 20 mg/ml fluorescein avidin DN (Vector Laboratories, ... formamide, × SSC at 70ºC for 3min, dehydrated through a prefreezed ethanol series of 70, 90 and 100% for each, and air – dried The hybridization mixture for 100 µl (total volume) consisted of...
... production of new cultivars, the importance of 34 accurate tools for assessing the genetic background and species or cultivar genuineness has become more important Assessment ofgenetic variation ... marker; 1-32: L oriental “Nostalgia”; L longiflorum 1;L formolongo; L poilanei Gagn.; L longiflorum 2; L longiflorum 3; L oriental hybrid “Cassandra”; L oriental “Sorbonne”; L oriental - trumpet ... such as Lilium longiflorum “Deliana” or Lilium longiflorum “Snow Queen” In 2007, Trinh Thi Viet Chung also detected the morphological variations among populationof L longiflorum collected in different...
... 27.0% of the geneticdiversityof this last group was detected among populations; however, this value was higher in Cordoba with 34.8% of total geneticdiversity The proportion ofgeneticdiversity ... characterization of the diversity in holm oak for glutelin proteins is present in Table The geneticdiversity ranged between Ht = 0.156 for population CO-01 and Ht = 0.277 for population CO-04 The geneticdiversity ... total gene diversity, Hs – average gene diversity within populations, Dst – average gene diversity among populations, Gst – gene diversity among populations relative to Ht The frequencies of each...
... The authors wish to thank Professor Riccardo Morandini, former Director of the Forest Research Institute of Arezzo, for his comments and suggestions [5] Breitenbach-Dorfer M., Mueller F., Pinsker ... the diversity core of the population, containing the main part of the gene pool and hence constitutes the priority zone for in situ conservation quite and Gregorius [2] studying 45 European populations ... Verein Forstl Standortskunde u Forstpflanzenzüchtung 34 (1989) 77-81 [43] Swofford D.L., Selander R.B., Biosys-1, Release 1.7 computer Program for the Analysis of Allelic Variation in Population Genetics...
... IFN, indicating an important regulatory pathway for the controlled inductionof multiple immunomodulatory genes The constitutive expression of IRF5 is limited to lymphoid organs, dendritic cells ... patterns of linkage disequilibrium In this study of a Korean SLE cohort, we present associations of IRF5 variants with SLE similar to those suggested by previous studies Transcription factors of the ... results in activation of a spectrum of IFN genes [11] Thus, polymorphism within the IRF5 gene might affect several cellular functions of importance for the development of an autoimmune disease,...
... conservation / porc / race eue e e e rop´enne e INTRODUCTION Europe contains a large proportion of the pig world population (circa 30%) as well as of the pig world geneticdiversity (37% of the breeds ... for the two DE breeds, Copenhagen for the DKSO and Uppsala for the SELR and SEWP breeds All laboratories used automated ABI sequencers with fluorescent dyes, apart from the Hohenheim Laboratory ... [17], taking account of the corrections needed for small sample size [18] 193 Geneticdiversity in pigs 2.3.3 Clustering, phylogenetic tree reconstruction and measures of breed diversity Distances...
... Nevertheless, the lack of organised studbooks, most of them created recently, for many of the breeds has facilitated a certain degree ofgenetic introgression between them 2.2 Sampling of populations The ... the distribution of the LODs for pairs of breeds, or populations, allowed for the construction of condence thresholds RESULTS 3.1 Variation within, and among, populations A total of 173 distinct ... loss ofdiversity caused by the extinction of a breed or a set of breeds 3.3 Evaluation ofdiversity In contrast to traditional hierarchical clustering methods, the use of the concepts of link...
... cohorts according to the reproduction method in order to derive proper genetic gains Origin of parents of each cohort of calves The optimal proportions (according to origin) of the parents for ... Thus, between cohorts of animals of the same origin but of different ages (i and j) the genetic lag at birth is: (j - i)OG The genetic lags at birth between cohorts of candidates for selection with ... wxyw(i) is the proportion of parents selected in W from cohort of age i, among the parents X of offspring Y, b is the intra-sex proportion of parents of type X y x used to produce offspring Y Thus,...
... proportion of ancestors known in each preceding generation (figure 2) The pedigree thoroughness was found to be very incomplete up to the fifth generation of ancestors because the proportion of ... probability of gene origin was calculated from the genetic contributions of the founders of the current population [2, 3, 13, 15] A founder is defined as an parents in the file This effective number of ... distribution for males is more unbalanced than in females because there are a few stallions with more than ten offspring, approximately three times as many as the average number of offspring per...
... antigenic variances of EV-71 have been reported [29,33] In this study, we reported a genetic and antigenic diversityof EV-71 subgenogroups in Taiwan in 2008, including previously reported subgenogroup ... as two minors Afterwards, the subgenogroup B4 was singled out as the major cause of the outbreaks with C4 as a minor in 2002, and then subgenogroup B5 became the major one with a minor C5 from ... genogroups B and C was reported The neutralization titers of the antisera for different genogroups of EV-71 ranged from 512 to >1,024, while the titers of the antisera for homologous EV-71 isolates...
... and 95°C for min, followed by cycles of 94°C for 30 sec, 50°C for min, and 68°C for min, and additional 30 cycles of 94°C for 30 sec, 55°C for min, and 68°C for For nested PCR, μL of RT-PCR product ... incubated at 95°C for followed by cycles of 94°C for 30 sec, 50°C for 30 sec, and 68°C for min, and additional 30 cycles of 94°C for 30 sec, 55°C for 30 sec, and 68°C for For all reactions a ... number of virus strains in these models suggest a degree of cross-protective efficacy mediated by prior infection with viruses of differing subgroups [26,49] The high degree of conservation of F...
... regions of Western and Eastern Siberia [32] Similarly, the American water shrew (Sorex palustris), Trowbridge's shrew (Sorex trowbridgii) and vagrant shrew (Sorex vagrans) in North America harbor genetic ... separate study, Sorex araneus, as well as the tundra shrew (Sorex tundrensis) and Siberian large-toothed shrew (Sorex daphaenodon), have been shown to harbor genetic variants of SWSV in six widely ... to potentially distinct evolutionary histories of these races is a matter of conjecture and requires future investigation Because the original report of SWSV was based on a single Eurasian common...
... degree ofgenetic variation due to the non-proofreading activity of the viral RNA polymerase, rapid rates of replication, immense population size, and immunological pressure [14] Historically, ... in the 95 informative sites of the E gene of DENV-3 The file provides details on nucleotide and amino acid substitutions in the informative sites of the E gene of DENV-3 Click here for file [http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/supplementary/1743422X-6-113-S3.xls] ... lineage, six of them being informative sites with synonymous substitutions (Table 1) Intragenotipic groups Careful analysis of the topology of the phylogenetic tree suggests the existence of intragenotipic...