populations species and conservation genetics pages 811 829 david s woodruff pdf

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... recombination biases predisposing to systemic autoimmunity in SLE and SS, there are some exceptions In some circumstances, specific autoantibodies express marked biases in IgV gene usage One example is the ... autoimmune diseases, such as pSS and SLE, seem to have characteristic abnormalities of particular censoring mechanisms IgV gene usage in patients with pSS is preferentially shaped by disordered selection ... Carsons SE, Daniels TE, Fox PC, Fox RI, Kassan SS, Pillemer SR, Talal N, Weisman MH: European Study Group on Classification Criteria for Sjögren s Syndrome Assessment of the European classification...

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... developmental stages of Mediterranean pines and its variability within and between species The direct comparison of the responses among species or populations within species poses some experimental ... Pinus pinea studied Dots and continuous lines represent stressed plants, triangles and dotted lines represent non-stressed plants Changes in biomass allocation in Mediterranean pines Considering ... drought DISCUSSION The present paper is focused on the morphological response of seedlings from close related species (and populations within species) to two contrasting watering regimes The observed...

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... ecosystems In situ conservation is the best strategy because it allows for the evolutionary dynamics necessary to maintain viable communities But what we in case of catastrophic loss of the reserves ... United States may grow in patches of related trees This may suggest how we should thin a stand to reduce inbreeding or how to sample for conservation or testing purposes Others who spoke at the symposium ... provenance tests in the United States; Scott Pauley established a test of northern red oak and Roland Schoenike established a test of southern red oak Both were lost when Pauley and Schoenike died...

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... 1.2.3.2.4 Multidimensional scaling Multidimensional scaling (MDS) was used to represent F ST genetic distances in a two-dimensional space using SPSS 19.0 (SPSS Inc., 2010) S- stress is a measure of fit ... crossing between domestic chickens and any of the three other wild species yields very poor hatchability and chick survival, G gallus always exhibits blue shanks This species inhabits in forests ... Description of the Gallus species The current domesticated chicken (G g domesticus) belongs to the Gallus species There are four wild species of Gallus known (Figures and 2) such as, Gallus sonneratii,...

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... figure The mass is taken together with the spring as the system we wish to study The mass is given an initial speed vo at point A Under the action of the spring force it slows down and stops completely ... corresponds to a spring compression x Then the mass reverses the direction of its motion and by the time it reaches point A its speed has reached the original value vo As in the previous example ... the other hand are called “non-conservative” for reasons that are explained below Consider a system that consists of a block of mass m and the floor on which it rests The block starts to move...

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... are the Asiatic serows, including the Japanese species and the much larger mainland species, at least two species of goral (Naemorhedus spp.), all found in Asia, and two species of chamois, which ... presence of horns in both sexes (except for some domesticated forms and one subspecies of mouflon), and for most species a complex seasonal pattern of homerange use (Shackleton 1997) The systematics ... funding agencies and organizations supported us financially or helped us logistically First and foremost, we wish to thank the many collaborators, students, and assistants who helped us collect data...

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... 17 Assessing conservation status and units for conservation ă Urs Breitenmoser, Christine Breitenmoser-Wursten, and Luigi Boitani 17.1 Assessing extinction risks for carnivore populations 17.2 ... bears (Ursus americanus) make winter dens under peoples houses, wolves (Canis lupus) and black and brown bears (Ursus arctos) scavenge in dumps, and tigers (Panthera tigris) and polar bears (Ursus ... Although researchers must always strive to apply probabilistic-based sampling schemes, survey areas or situations will stymie the best efforts: in these cases, measurements refer to sampled units only,...

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... models and the Dirichlet process Applications and generalisations P´lya urn schemes and MCMC samplers o A coloured Dirichlet process 14 The associated random walk and martingales in random walks ... Carolina Press With discussion and response [M35] Kingman, J F C 1966 An approach to the study of Markov processes J Roy Statist Soc Ser B, 28, 417–447 With discussion and response [M36] Kingman, ... Robertson, E F 2009 John Frank Charles Kingman MacTutor History of Mathematics Biographies School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, Scotland http://www-groups.dcs.st -and. ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/...

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... of actual erosional processes Thus Chapters to deal with the processes of soil erosion, the assessment of erosion risk at different scales and the monitoring and modelling of erosion The treatment ... water starts to pond on the surface, it is held in depressions or hollows and runoff does not begin until the storage capacity of these is satised On agricultural land, depression Processes and ... therefore, its structural state and the intensity of the rain Le Bissonnais (1990) describes three possible responses: If the soil is dry and the rainfall intensity is high, the soil aggregates break...

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... extinctions and the means for alleviating them Conservation genetics encompasses the following activities: Conservation genetics is the use of genetics to aid the conservation of populations or species ... in conservation biology What is a species? Sub -species How species arise? Use of genetic analyses in delineating species Genetic distance Constructing phylogenetic trees Outbreeding depression ... threatened species will often lead to sub-optimal management and in some cases to disastrous decisions xii TAKE-HOME MESSAGES 14 The first step in genetic management of a threatened species is to resolve...

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... 17 Assessing conservation status and units for conservation ă Urs Breitenmoser, Christine Breitenmoser-Wursten, and Luigi Boitani 17.1 Assessing extinction risks for carnivore populations 17.2 ... bears (Ursus americanus) make winter dens under peoples houses, wolves (Canis lupus) and black and brown bears (Ursus arctos) scavenge in dumps, and tigers (Panthera tigris) and polar bears (Ursus ... Although researchers must always strive to apply probabilistic-based sampling schemes, survey areas or situations will stymie the best efforts: in these cases, measurements refer to sampled units only,...

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... noisy, and it must be said, smelly, colony Others are less gregarious, such as the bitterns and some day herons, and have well-dispersed nesting territories Herons typically share a suite of distinctive ... reedbeds and thickly vegetated margins of lakes and rivers Many heron species are further subdivided into subspecies or races This is appropriate for widespread species and especially those that ... is the study of past and present geographical distributions of plants and animals and attempting to understand these in the context of past climatic and geological events and species dispersive...

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... crab, shrimp, and mollusc species At the same time, these ecosystems serve as a sanctuary for indigenous and migratory bird species Indeed, the richness of biological diversity in these ecosystems, ... hydrologists, biochemists, palynologists, microbiologists, geneticists, plant pathologists, foresters, sociologists, and others speak different languages – and so the coastal dwellers who depend ... Exercises such as the present workshop and others tend to put matters in their right perspective and call for better estimates and precise assessments The usefulness of the UNU workshop lies in...

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... that the Sakhalin sturgeon, usually considered as the same species as the American green sturgeon A medirostris or as its Asian subspecies A medirostris mikadoi, is in fact a distinct species, A ... with common shovelnose sturgeons The rare Alabama sturgeon (S sutkussi) closely resembles common shovelnose sturgeon; its status as a distinct species is debated A partially intact fossil from the ... Scaphirhynchus and Pseudoscaphirhychus) and one putative fossil genus (†Protoscaphirhynchus) Other fossil and subfossil material has been described, but most of it is fragmentary Many populations of sturgeons...

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... leaves of a single plant species (Corydalis solida) This plant grows along sunny margins of forests and trees where the soil is moist, but not in permanently flooded places, wetlands and hummocks ... fire-prone secondary succession of Mediterranean woodlands was studied in order to understand species turnover and changes in diversity The investigated secondary succession started from young burned stages ... slightly increased along the succession (12 species in recently BA areas vs 16 species in CNB) Some species (i.e Charaxes jasius, Coenonympha pamphilus and Melanargia galathea) were censused in the...

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