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... Plants produce a remarkable diversity of structurally and functionally diverse natural chemicals that serve as adaptive compounds throughout their life cycles. However, unlocking this metabolic diversity is significantly impeded by the size, complexity, and abundant repetitive elements of typical plant genomes. As genome sequencing becomes routine, we anticipate that links between metabolic divers ...
... While it is established that the functional impact of genetic variation can vary across cell types and states, capturing this diversity remains challenging. Current studies using bulk sequencing either ignore this heterogeneity or use sorted cell populations, reducing discovery and explanatory power. Here, we develop scDALI, a versatile computational framework that integrates information on cellul ...
geneticvariation, etc ; evolution; genomics; microorganisms; Show all 4 Subjects
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... Micro-organisms play key roles in various ecosystems, but many of their functions and interactions remain undefined. To investigate the ecological relevance of microbial communities, new molecular tools are being developed. Among them, single-cell omics assessing genetic diversity at the population and community levels and linking each individual cell to its functions is gaining interest in microb ...
geneticvariation, etc ; demography; geographical distribution; Show all 3 Subjects
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... Species distribution models (SDMs) are widely used in ecology. In theory, SDMs capture (at least part of) species' ecological niches and can be used to make inferences about the distribution of suitable habitat for species of interest. Because habitat suitability is expected to influence population demography, SDMs have been used to estimate a variety of population parameters, from occurrence to g ...
Amanda de Nazaré Cohen-Paes; Darlen Cardoso de Carvalho; Lucas Favacho Pastana; Elizabeth Ayres Fragoso Dobbin; Fabiano Cordeiro Moreira; Tatiane Piedade de Souza; Marianne Rodrigues Fernandes; Diana Feio da Veiga Borges Leal; Roberta Borges Andrade de Sá; Angélica Leite de Alcântara; João Farias Guerreiro; Ândrea Ribeiro-dos-Santos; Sidney Emanuel Batista dos Santos; Paulo Pimentel de Assumpção; Ney Pereira Carneiro dos Santos
geneticvariation, etc ; genes; genetic profile; Amazonia; Show all 4 Subjects
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... Genetic variations in PCLO have been associated with different pathologies in global literature, but there are no data regarding this gene in Native American populations. The Amazonian Native American populations have lower genetic diversity and are more different from other continental groups. We investigated 18 genetic variants in the PCLO gene in Amazonian indigenous and compared our results wi ...
geneticvariation, etc ; alleles; ecology; evolutionary biology; Show all 4 Subjects
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... Estimating the extent of genetic differentiation between populations is an important measure in population genetics, ecology and evolutionary biology. The fixation index, or FST, is an important measure, which is routinely used to quantify this. Previous studies have shown that the FST estimated for selectively constrained regions was significantly lower than that estimated for neutral regions. By ...
geneticvariation, etc ; archaeology; humans; people; Africa; Show all 5 Subjects
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... About 270 viruses are known to infect humans. Some of these viruses have been known for centuries, whereas others have recently emerged. During their evolutionary history, humans have moved out of Africa to populate the world. In historical times, human migrations resulted in the displacement of large numbers of people. All these events determined the movement and dispersal of human-infecting viru ...
geneticvariation, etc ; autosomes; mitochondrial DNA; pedigree; Show all 4 Subjects
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... The genetic contribution with respect to autosomal genes has been widely used to evaluate the genetic diversity of a target population. Here, we developed a method to calculate the genetic contribution with respect to genes on sex chromosomes and mitochondrial DNA through pedigree analysis. To demonstrate the performance, we applied the methods for calculating genetic contributions to example pedi ...
Guido Alberto Gnecchi-Ruscone; Anna Szécsényi-Nagy; István Koncz; Gergely Csiky; Zsófia Rácz; A.B. Rohrlach; Guido Brandt; Nadin Rohland; Veronika Csáky; Olivia Cheronet; Bea Szeifert; Tibor Ákos Rácz; András Benedek; Zsolt Bernert; Norbert Berta; Szabolcs Czifra; János Dani; Zoltán Farkas; Tamara Hága; Tamás Hajdu; Mónika Jászberényi; Viktória Kisjuhász; Barbara Kolozsi; Péter Major; Antónia Marcsik; Bernadett Ny. Kovacsóczy; Csilla Balogh; Gabriella M. Lezsák; János Gábor Ódor; Márta Szelekovszky; Tamás Szeniczey; Judit Tárnoki; Zoltán Tóth; Eszter K. Tutkovics; Balázs G. Mende; Patrick Geary; Walter Pohl; Tivadar Vida; Ron Pinhasi; David Reich; Zuzana Hofmanová; Choongwon Jeong; Johannes Krause
geneticvariation, etc ; ancestry; basins; genome; steppes; Show all 5 Subjects
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... The Avars settled the Carpathian Basin in 567/68 CE, establishing an empire lasting over 200 years. Who they were and where they came from is highly debated. Contemporaries have disagreed about whether they were, as they claimed, the direct successors of the Mongolian Steppe Rouran empire that was destroyed by the Turks in ∼550 CE. Here, we analyze new genome-wide data from 66 pre-Avar and Avar-pe ...
geneticvariation, etc ; Pereskia; ex situ conservation; provenance; Show all 4 Subjects
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... The ex situ conservation of Leuenbergeria aureiflora (EN) and Pereskia bahiensis subsp. minensis (CR) (Cactaceae) by means of seed production for banking is described as an example of what can be achieved on a domestic scale, utilising plants of documented wild provenance. ...
geneticvariation, etc ; biodiversity; environmental degradation; evolutionary adaptation; Show all 4 Subjects
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... The transformation of ecosystems proceeds at unprecedented rates. Recent studies suggest that high rates of environmental change can cause rate-induced tipping. In ecological models, the associated rate-induced critical transition manifests during transient dynamics in which populations drop to dangerously low densities. In this work, we study how indirect evolutionary rescue—due to the rapid evol ...
geneticvariation, etc ; ecology; linkage disequilibrium; uncertainty; variance; Show all 5 Subjects
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... In genomic‐scale data sets, loci are closely packed within chromosomes and hence provide correlated information. Averaging across loci as if they were independent creates pseudoreplication, which reduces the effective degrees of freedom (df’) compared to the nominal degrees of freedom, df. This issue has been known for some time, but consequences have not been systematically quantified across the ...
Yamenah Gómez; John Berezowski; Yandy Abreu Jorge; Sabine G. Gebhardt-Henrich; Sabine Vögeli; Ariane Stratmann; Michael Jeffrey Toscano; Bernhard Voelkl
geneticvariation, etc ; social environment; social networks; Scotland; Show all 4 Subjects
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... We explored the relationship between social associations and individual activity patterns in domestic hens. Out of 1420 laying hens, 421 hens were equipped with RFID tags attached to RFID-specific leg bands (leg bands from Company Roxan, Selkirk, Scotland) to continuously track their change in location across four different areas (one indoor and three outdoor areas). Using a combination of social ...
geneticvariation, etc ; Rubus chamaemorus; electrophoresis; population genetics; Show all 4 Subjects
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... Inter-primer binding site (iPBS) molecular retrotransposon-based markers are a universal and simple tool to estimate genetic diversity. The goal of this study was to select highly informative iPBS primers to be used in studies of intraspecific genetic diversity of cloudberry (Rubus chamaemorus L.), a common plant species of the boreal zone, associated with raised bog habitats and transitional bogs ...
geneticvariation, etc ; arithmetics; genomics; heterozygosity; plant physiology; Show all 5 Subjects
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... In the present investigation, cross-transferability of 125 B. rapa specific and 70 B. nigra specific genomic-SSRs had been evaluated in 16 genotypes of B. carinata (Ethiopian mustard) with an aim to develop genomic resources for Ethiopian mustard. A cross-transferability rate of 82.4% (103 SSRs) and 84.3% (59 SSRs) had been obtained for B. rapa- and B. nigra- derived SSRs, respectively, out of whi ...
geneticvariation, etc ; benthic organisms; climate change; ecosystems; Show all 4 Subjects
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... The Southern Ocean is experiencing unprecedented environmental risks and consequences from current climate change. It is unclear how the benthic fauna, which has largely evolved in isolation, will respond to future changes. Knowing how the benthic fauna persisted through repeated extreme glacial–interglacial cycles in the past provides a unique opportunity to inform future predictions. Right now, ...
geneticvariation, etc ; Macaca; allopatric speciation; phylogeny; India; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Arunachal macaque (M. munzala) is an endangered and recently discovered cercopithecine primate from Western Arunachal Pradesh, India. On genetic analyses of Arunachal macaques, we observed spatially distributed substantial inter-species genetic divergence among the samples collected from Arunachal Pradesh. The results suggested that Arunachal macaque evolved into two phylogenetic species about 1.9 ...
geneticvariation, etc ; chemistry; physics; sickle cell anemia; Show all 4 Subjects
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... RBCs membrane loses its integrity during hemoglobinopathies such as β-thalassemia and sickle cell disease. The severity of β-thalassemia has been historically linked to the presence of XMN polymorphism which is believed to ameliorate the severity. Here, we investigate the effect of XMN polymorphism on RBC membrane lipidome isolated from patients, using LC-MS/MS based approach. A total of 50 patien ...
geneticvariation, etc ; cattle; effective population size; herds; pedigree; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Pedigree analyses of two endangered cattle breeds were performed in order to study the structure and the genetic variability in their populations. Pedigree data were analyzed from 12,057 individuals belonging to the “Berrenda en Negro” cattle breed (BN) and 20,389 individuals belonging to the “Berrenda en Colorado” cattle breed (BC) that were born between 1983 and 2020. BN and BC reference populat ...
geneticvariation, etc ; genetic improvement; genotype; goats; infrastructure; Ethiopia; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Analysis and evaluation of the previous genetic improvement attempts and their fruition are paramount to make the right decision in the future. Hence, this paper reviews the status of goat genetic improvement programs through quantitative evidence and elucidates how it can be implemented in the future through an intensive literature review. Goat genetic improvement through crossbreeding was initia ...