Category Archives: Citation

Subspecies delineation amid phenotypic, geographic and genetic discordance in a songbird

Posted on March 25, 2017 by Alex

February 2017 Authors: Jennifer Walsh, Irby J. Lovette, Virginia Winder, Chris S. Elphick, Brian J. Olsen, Gregory Shriver, and Adrienne I. Kovach Info: Scientists at Cornell University and other institutions analyzed sparrow populations using reduced-representation sequencing to understand the genetic … more »

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Small genomic insertions form enhancers that misregulate oncogenes

Posted on March 25, 2017 by Alex

February 2017 Authors: Brian J. Abraham, Denes Hnisz, Abraham S. Weintraub, Nicholas Kwiatkowski, et al. Info: In this paper, scientists report using ChIP-seq to better understand the role of non-coding somatic insertions in tumorigenesis. They identified enhancer-associated small insertions, often … more »

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Minimum sample sizes for population genomics: an empirical study from an Amazonian plant species

Posted on March 25, 2017 by Alex

February 2017 Authors: Alison G. Nazareno, Jordan B. Bemmels, Christopher W. Dick, Lúcia G. Lohmann Info: Scientists in Michigan and São Paulo, Brazil, performed ddRAD-seq on two separate populations of Amphirrhox longifolia to determine how many SNPs and organisms have … more »

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Genetic diversity of Atlantic Bluefin tuna in the Mediterranean Sea: insights from genome-wide SNPs and microsatellites

Posted on March 25, 2017 by Alex

February 2017 Authors: Aglaia Antoniou, Panagiotis Kasapidis, Georgios Kotoulas, Constantinos C. Mylonas and Antonios Magoulas Info: Scientists from the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research used ddRAD-seq to analyze genome-wide SNPs in the Atlantic Bluefin tuna, with the goal of understanding … more »

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Co-chaperone Hsp70/Hsp90 organizing protein (Hop) is Required for Transposon Silencing and piRNA Biogenesis

Posted on March 25, 2017 by Alex

February 2017 Authors: Joseph A. Karam, Rasesh Y. Parikh, Dhananjaya Nayak, David Rosenkranz and Vamsi K. Gangaraju Info: Scientists from South Carolina and Mainz, Germany, studied Hop, a co-chaperone that interacts with a piRNA in Drosophila. They found that knocking … more »

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Metagenomic survey of the taxonomic and functional microbial communities of seawater and sea ice from the Canadian Arctic

Posted on March 25, 2017 by Alex

February 2017 Authors: Etienne Yergeau, Christine Michel, Julien Tremblay, Andrea Niemi, Thomas L. King, Joanne Wyglinski, Kenneth Lee, and Charles W. Greera Info: Scientists from Canada and Australia studied how climate change may be affecting microbial communities by performing metagenomic … more »

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Two stable variants of Burkholderia pseudomallei strain MSHR5848 express broadly divergent in vitro phenotypes associated with their virulence differences

Posted on March 25, 2017 by Alex

February 2017 Authors: A. A. Shea, R. C. Bernhards, C. K. Cote, C. J. Chase, et al. Info: Scientists from the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases compared two strains of Burkholderia pseudomallei to find variants that … more »

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Detection of individual ploidy levels with genotyping‐by‐sequencing (GBS) analysis

Posted on March 25, 2017 by Alex

February 2017 Authors: Zachariah Gompert, Karen E. Mock Info: Utah State University researchers developed a statistical approach to detect low-level ploidy variants using genotyping data from a sequencing workflow. The method does not require prior ploidy information to function. An … more »

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Rapid genetic and morphologic divergence between captive and wild populations of the endangered Leon Springs pupfish, Cyprinodon bovinus

Posted on March 25, 2017 by Alex

February 2017 Authors: Andrew N. Black, Heidi A. Seears, Christopher M. Hollenbeck, and Paul B. Samollow Info: Scientists studied members of two remaining populations of the endangered Leon Springs pupfish, one in a desert spring and the other in captivity. … more »

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De Novo Genome and Transcriptome Assembly of the Canadian Beaver (Castor canadensis)

Posted on March 25, 2017 by Alex

February 2017 Authors: Si Lok, Tara A. Paton, Zhuozhi Wang, Gaganjot Kaur, et al. Info: Researchers in Toronto report a high-quality draft assembly of the 2.7 Gb beaver genome using SMRT Sequencing. They include an analysis of gene content, such … more »

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