Dietary Protein Requirements for Juvenile Hybrid Culter (Culter alburnus ♀ × Ancherythroculter nigrocauda ♂)

Isolation and characterization of 32 microsatellite loci for topmouth culter (Culter alburnus Basilewsky).

The topmouth culter (Culter alburnus) is an economically important freshwater fish, which is widely distributed throughout large rivers, reservoirs, and lake areas of China. We report here the isolation and characterization of 32 new polymorphic microsatellite loci isolated from genomic DNA in this species enriched by (CA)12 and (GA)12 probes. The variability of these microsatellites was tested...

Development of new polymorphic microsatellite markers in topmouth culter (Culter alburnus) and determination of their applicability in Culter mongolicus.

Fifteen new polymorphic microsatellite markers were developed for Culter alburnus. In 32 individuals representing a wild population of the Danjiangkou Reservoir, Hubei, China, the number of alleles at these loci varied between 2 and 10, with an average of 5.5. The average observed and expected heterozygosities were 0.664 and 0.681, respectively. The polymorphism information content of 11 loci w...

Triploid Intersexuality in Drosophila Americana Spencer.

Global transcriptional and miRNA insights into bases of heterosis in hybridization of Cyprinidae

Hybrid Megalobrama amblycephala × Culter alburnus represents a population newly formed by interspecific crossing between two different genera. Here we assessed the expression pattern of mRNA and small RNA in newly formed F1, F2 and their progenitors. Large amounts of nonadditively expressed protein-coding genes showed parental expression level dominance (ELD). Interestingly, the ELD pattern cou...

Effect of Process Variables on the Probiotic and Starter Culter Growth in Sinbiotic Yogurt Beet

During the past twenty years, the trend of dairy food manufacturers has been to incorporate probiotic bacteria into some fermented and non fermented dairy products. This is primarily due to potential health benefits attributed to their consumption [1]. Lactobacillus acidophilus is involved in the production of many fermented milk products with claimed probiotic value such as reduction of lactos...