Population genetic structure of stellate sturgeon (Acipenser stellatus) in 197 adult specimens from four fishery regions along the Iranian coastline of the southern Caspian Sea was investigated using microsatellite markers. Out of 15 microsatellite primers, 11 loci were produced, in which 10 of them were polymorphic and 1 was monomorph. Totally, 184 alleles were identified and on average 13.1 a...

Chondrogenesis; chondromodulin-1 (chm1); Angiogenesis inhibitor; Cartilage; Notochord; Zebra®sh; type II collagen (col2a1); Craniofacial; Otic vesicle; Pectoral ®n; Pharyngeal arch; Maternal transcript; Trabecula; Ethmoid plate; Genetic locus 105 157 chondromodulin-1 (chm1); Angiogenesis inhibitor; Cartilage; Notochord; Zebra®sh; type II collagen (col2a1); Craniofacial; Chondrogenesis; Otic ves...

Genetic diversity estimation of plant materials is one of the important pre-breeding activities in breeding field crops. Twenty-one microsatellite markers used to assess genetic diversity and relationship of 68 sunflower genotypes (Helianthus annuus L.). All of 21 pairs of SSR (Simple Sequence Repeats) markers produced a total number of 49 polymorphic bands. DNA fragments ranged from 9...

Tuber shape in potato is commonly regarded as displaying continuous variation, yet at the diploid level phenotypes can be discerned visually, having round or long tubers. Inheritance of qualitative tuber shape can be explained by a single locus Ro, round being dominant to long. With restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs) the Ro locus was mapped on chromosome 10. Tuber shape was also ...

The genetic mapping of complex traits has been challenging and has required new statistical methods that are robust to misspecified models. Liang et al. proposed a robust multipoint method that can be used to simultaneously estimate, on the basis of sib-pair linkage data, both the position of a trait locus on a chromosome and its effect on disease status. The advantage of their method is that i...