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... In species with biparental care, diel patterns in male and female incubation arise due to the differential costs and benefits of incubation. This pattern should be less obvious or absent in species where both sexes stand to benefit significantly from investing in incubation (i.e. in monogamous species with high paternity certainty), in temperate climates and in sexually monomorphic species where s ...
paternity, etc ; DNA; heterozygosity; kinship; loci; probability; Show all 6 Subjects
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... In recent years, the number of publications on microhaplotypes has averaged more than a dozen papers annually. Many have contributed to a significant increase in the number of highly polymorphic microhaplotype loci. This increase allows microhaplotypes to be very informative in four main areas of forensic uses of DNA: individualization, ancestry inference, kinship analysis, and mixture deconvoluti ...
paternity, etc ; Potamotrygonidae; fish; freshwater; genotyping; microsatellite repeats; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Multiple paternity (MP) is a phenomenon observed for more than 30 elasmobranch species. The Batoidea is more specious than the Selachii, but only three studies of MP have been conducted on batoids. The occurrence of MP in freshwater stingrays was tested using microsatellite markers, which were developed for Potamotrygon leopoldi. Six mothers and their litters were genotyped, providing the first ev ...
paternity, etc ; data collection; heritability; pedigree; phenotype; sires; villages; Ethiopia; Show all 8 Subjects
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... A major challenge in improving genetic merits of smallholder farmers’ flocks in developing livestock systems is the absence of pedigree and performance recording for reliable selection decisions. In this study, we evaluated the reliability of pedigree recording in a community-based Menz sheep village breeding program in Ethiopia, with the purpose of introducing genetic evaluation in the selection ...
paternity, etc ; animal behavior; copulation; females; males; monogamy; polyandry; progeny; spermatozoa; Alaska; Show all 10 Subjects
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... In socially monogamous species, extrapair paternity typically results from extrapair copulations, but it can also be due to rapid mate switching. Oring, Fleischer, Reed, and Marsden (1992, Nature, 359 (6396), 631–633) proposed a mechanism to explain the occurrence of extrapair paternity in sequentially polyandrous species: sperm stored by females from within-pair copulations with a previous mate c ...
paternity, etc ; DNA; capillary electrophoresis; forensic sciences; gene frequency; genes; genetic markers; China; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Deletion/insertion polymorphism (DIP) is a promising genetic marker of DNA length polymorphism. However, there are relatively few studies on the exploration of DIP genetic polymorphisms and investigation of population genetic data at present, which limits its application in forensic identification. In this study, the genetic polymorphisms of 57 autosomal DIPs and forensic application evaluations o ...
paternity, etc ; Cistothorus; adults; genotyping; grasses; males; nests; progeny; sex ratio; space and time; Show all 10 Subjects
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... Demographic factors can affect the frequency of extra‐pair paternity (EPP) in birds, as the distribution and availability of potential mates in both space and time influence the rate of encounters between females and males. Over three breeding seasons, we intensively studied the breeding system of a south temperate population of grass wrens Cistothorus platensis by genotyping 73 broods (319 nestli ...
paternity, etc ; evolution; immigration; males; microsatellite repeats; reproductive performance; reproductive success; sociobiology; Costa Rica; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Although males often disperse to increase their immediate access to mates, it is unclear whether they also consider potential future reproductive opportunities. We investigated whether immediate or delayed reproductive opportunities predicted dispersal decisions and reproductive success of subordinate immigrant male white-faced capuchins in the Sector Santa Rosa, the Área de Conservación Guanacast ...
paternity, etc ; females; haploidy; isozymes; males; mosses and liverworts; multivariate analysis; sex ratio; sporophytes; trees; Show all 10 Subjects
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... We used isozyme markers to obtain an estimate of multiple paternity (mating of females with multiple males) in the unisexual, haploid leafy liverwort Porella platyphylloidea. From a sample of 119 plants, 15 (12.6%) were non-sex-expressing, 16 (13.4%) were females without sporophytes, 38 (31.9%) were males, and 50 (42.0%) were females bearing sporophytes. Thus, 87.4% of all plants expressed sex, an ...
... Patterns of extra pair paternity (EPP) and intraspecific brood parasitism (IBP) were studied in a Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybrida population characterized by female brood desertion, a high level of extra pair courtship feedings (10%) and a low level of extra pair copulation (EPC; 0.6%). In this study, we used a set of microsatellite loci to analyse parentage in 56 Whiskered Tern families from so ...
paternity, etc ; Wagyu; alleles; cattle; coefficient of relationship; genomics; genotyping; homozygosity; pedigree; prediction; single nucleotide polymorphism; Show all 11 Subjects
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... Genome‐wide single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers in Japanese Black cattle enable genomic prediction and verifying parent–offspring relationships. We assessed the performance of opposing homozygotes (OH) for paternity testing in Japanese Black cattle, using SNP genotype information of 50 sires and 3,420 fattened animals, 1,945 of which were fathered by the 50 genotyped sires. The number of ...
paternity, etc ; DNA; Panthera leo leo; Y chromosome; genes; hybrids; law enforcement; mitochondria; mitochondrial genome; phylogeny; wildlife; Show all 11 Subjects
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... Species assignment of any seized material using DNA analysis has been a routine and widely accepted standard procedure in providing scientific advisory for the legal prosecution of wildlife cases. Scientific advancements and rigorous application of genetic tools have led to the development of a variety of molecular markers with their defined efficacy in wildlife forensics. However, in a few unusua ...
paternity, etc ; copulation; ecology; females; genotyping; males; polyandry; progeny; selection intensity; sexual selection; sperm competition; spermatozoa; spiders; Show all 13 Subjects
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... Sperm competition drives traits that enhance fertilization success. The amount of sperm transferred relative to competitors is key for attaining paternity. Female reproductive morphology and male mating order may also influence fertilization, however the outcome for sperm precedence under intense sperm competition remains poorly understood. In the polyandrous spider Pisaura mirabilis, males offer ...
paternity, etc ; DNA; alleles; databases; forensic sciences; gender; heterozygosity; nationalities and ethnic groups; police; probability; statistical analysis; Thailand; Show all 12 Subjects
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... Allele frequencies of 15 autosomal STR loci were established from 540 unrelated Myanmarese individuals using the Thailand Office of Police Forensic Science database. The DNA profiles were provided anonymized with only nationality and gender acknowledged. The allele frequencies were calculated under Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. The range of allele frequencies was 0.0009–0.5389. Heterozygosity ranged ...
Fernanda M. Garcia; Bárbara G. O. Bessa; Eldamária V. W. dos Santos; Julia D. P. Pereira; Lyvia N. R. Alves; Lucas A. Vianna; Matheus C. Casotti; Raquel S. R. Trabach; Victor S. Stange; Débora D. Meira; Iuri D. Louro
paternity, etc ; DNA; X chromosome; Y chromosome; females; forensic sciences; genetic testing; humans; microsatellite repeats; population genetics; probability; Show all 11 Subjects
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... Microsatellite genetic markers are the gold standard for human genetic identification. Forensic analyses around the world are carried out through protocols using the analysis of STR markers in autosomal chromosomes and in the Y chromosome to solve crimes. However, these analyses do not allow for the resolution of all cases, such as rape situations with suspicion of incest, paternity without a mate ...
paternity, etc ; agronomy; avocados; boron; fatty acid composition; flowering; fruit set; fruit size; fruit weight; fruits; self-pollination; Show all 11 Subjects
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... Boron plays a critical role in pollination and fertilization and can affect fruit set and yield. We applied 0 g, 15 g (manufacturer recommendation) or 30 g boron pre-flowering to Hass avocado trees to determine the effects on fruit set, fruitlet paternity, yield, fruit size, mineral nutrient concentrations and fatty acid composition. The boron applications did not significantly affect the initial ...
paternity, etc ; Gastropoda; Neolamprologus; body size; females; fish; males; models; monogamy; nests; phylogeny; polygyny; progeny; sociobiology; Lake Tanganyika; Show all 15 Subjects
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... Cooperative breeding systems, where individuals other than parents assist in raising offspring, have been documented in insects, fish, birds, and mammals. Still, the factors driving the evolution of such complex systems are not fully understood. Here, we report a new example of cooperative breeding in the obligate shell-brooding cichlid fish Neolamprologus meeli from Lake Tanganyika. Field observa ...
... To consider and evaluate the effectiveness of strategies for genetic variation preservation of populations of targeted species, it is important to examine which components of gametic heterogeneity have a greater impact on the genetic diversity of the next generation. Here, we investigated gene dispersal patterns in dispersed seeds and the relative levels of genetic diversity and differentiation fo ...
... The Adriatic sturgeon, Acipenser naccarii (Bonaparte, 1836), is a critically endangered tetraploid endemism of the Adriatic region; it has been targeted, over the last 20 years, by different conservation programs based on controlled reproduction of captive breeders followed by the release of their juvenile offspring; its preservation would greatly benefit from the correct and coordinated managemen ...
... Within captive management programs for species of conservation concern, understanding the genetic mating system is of fundamental importance, given its role in generating and maintaining genetic diversity and promoting opportunities for sperm competition. If a goal of a conservation program is reintroduction, knowledge of the mating system may also inform prediction models aimed at understanding h ...