Tropical commercial sea cucumber Stichopus horrens is extensively distributed throughout the tropical Indo-Pacific region, and wild stocks have been severely depleted over the past decade. In this study, we used the microsatellite enrichment library of S. horrens to identify and characterize 13 microsatellite loci, including 11 polymorphic loci and 2 monomorphic loci. Among the 11 polymorphic l...

One approach to re-balancing the Digital Divide tends to favor the production of informative content in flat formats, which are easy to distribute and consume. At the same time this approach forbids to deliver the core knowledge pertinent within the content; i.e. it increases the Knowledge Divide. In some international organizations, informative content distribution to groups in Latin America h...

In this paper, we present a web content extraction method to extract different types of informative web content for news web pages. A fuzzy sequential pattern mining method, namely FSP, is developed to gradually discover fuzzy sequential patterns for various types of informative web content. To avoid the situation that the usage of HTML tags may be changed with the development of web technology...

Microsatellites, tandem repeats of short nucleotide (1-6 bp) sequences, are the DNA marker of choice because of their highly polymorphic, ubiquitous distribution within genome, ease of genotyping through polymerase chain reaction (PCR), selectively neutral, co-dominant and multi allelic nature. Six microsatellites, three polymorphic and three monomorphic, have been characterized for the first t...

PREMISE OF THE STUDY Polymorphic microsatellite loci were characterized in the dioecious neotropical rainforest tree Virola sebifera. The markers will be used to study ecological and genetic impacts of hunting and landscape change in this vertebrate-dispersed, insect-pollinated tree species. METHODS AND RESULTS Simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers were screened from genomic libraries of South...

The physical nature and quantitative characteristics of the photoplethysmographic (PPG) signal under conditions external compression studied tissue area are theoretically investigated. Dependences constant variable components PPG on applied pressure revealed, which have maxima at certain values. model formation process takes into account optical mechanical properties biological tissues. is base...

To enable cumulative increases in aquaculture productivity, structured and efficient selective breeding programs are required. These contingent on the management of genetic resources within population though attainment accurate pedigree information which can be provided by DNA-based parentage analysis. This study developed a SNP panel for greenlip abalone, Haliotis laevigata, from DArTSeq data ...

Forty-seven epithelial ovarian cancers were analyzed for loss of heterozygosity (LOH) at D11S35 (11q22), close to the progesterone receptor (PR) gene, and for tumoral estrogen receptor (ER) and PR content. Thirty-eight of 47 tumors were informative, and, of these, 14 exhibited LOH. There was a significant association (P = 0.014) between D11S35 LOH and low tumoral PR content. For all informative...

pistacia atlantica subsp. mutica is one of the most valuable forest tree species in iran that has been severely exploited for a long time. therefore, understanding the genetic diversity of different populations can be an important step towards the development and restoration of the habitat of this invaluable tree species. in this study, in order to study the genetic diversity, 10 populations in...