objective(s) despite the enormous heterogeneity of genetic hearing loss, most non-syndromic hearing losses are caused by mutations in the gjb2 gene. we aimed to characterize the mutation profiles of 100 iranian deaf patients that were under 10 years old. materials and methods patients were tested with direct sequencing of entire coding region of the gjb2 gene. results eight known mutations plus...

introduction: domestic animals are invaluable resources to study the molecular architecture of complex traits. although the mapping of quantitative trait loci (qtl) underlying economically important traits in domestic animals has achieved remarkable results in recent decades, not all of the genetic variation in the complex traits has been captured due to the low density of markers used in qtl m...

a territorial isolation is a danger to the game population, causing deterioration called the inbreeding depression. the typical signs are anomalous body proportions, such as short lower jaw, shortened lifetime, weak physique and lower birth rate. this is caused by low number of game in the community. white colored deer is in the location of the czechrepublicbred in separation since 18th century...

With the exception of a small body of adaptive-parameter literature, evolutionary computation has traditionally favored keeping the population size constant through the course of the run. Unfortunately, genetic programming has an aging problem: for various reasons, late in the run the technique become less effective at optimization. Given a fixed number of evaluations, allocating many of them l...