Hybrid zones can be valuable tools for studying evolution and identifying genomic regions responsible for adaptive divergence and underlying phenotypic variation. Hybrid zones between subspecies of Heliconius butterflies can be very narrow and are maintained by strong selection acting on color pattern. The comimetic species, H. erato and H. melpomene, have parallel hybrid zones in which both sp...

Genome-wide evaluation uses the associations of a large number of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers across the whole genome and then combines the statistical methods with genomic data to predict the genetic values. Genomic predictions relieson linkage disequilibrium (LD) between genetic markers and quantitative trait loci (QTL) in a population. Methods that use all markers simultaneo...

BACKGROUND Helicobacter pylori is a Gram-negative bacterium that persistently infects the human stomach inducing chronic inflammation. The exact mechanisms of pathogenesis are still not completely understood. Although not a natural host for H. pylori, mouse infection models play an important role in establishing the immunology and pathogenicity of H. pylori. In this study, for the first time, t...

Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) are one of the most common, well-known pathogenic agents in the development of peptic ulcers. Some investigators have shown a relationship between H. pylori and Multiple Sclerosis (MS). However, this relationship is controversial. The aim of this study was to determine the association between H. pylori infection and MS. In a prospective case-control study, we stu...

∗This research was supported by funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Iain Cockburn, Rebecca Eisenberg, Bronwyn Hall, Mark Lemley, Douglas Lichtman, Jean Lanjouw, David Mowery, Richard R. Nelson, Arti Rai, Mark Schankerman, Scott Stern, and Rosemarie Ziedonis provided helpful comments on an earlier draft of this paper. I also benefitted from feedback from participants at the 2004 NBE...

Helicobacter hepaticus was discovered in 1992 as a cause of liver cancer in the A/JCr mouse model. In susceptible mice, infection by H. hepaticus causes chronic gastrointestinal inflammation leading to neoplasia. It can also cause morphological changes in breast-glands leading to neoplasm and adenocarcinoma in mouse models. Studies performed on humans have revealed that H. hepaticus may also be...

The origin of new diploid species through inter-specific hybridization may be facilitated by rapid genomic reorganization. There is evidence that this process was involved in the independent origins of three annual sunflower species in the genus Helianthus. The three hybrid taxa, H. anomalus, H. deserticola and H. paradoxus, are products of ancient hybridization events between the same two pare...

Haemophilus influenzae is an important cause of invasive disease. The infant rat is the accepted model of invasive H. influenzae disease. Here, we report the genome sequences of six nontypeable H. influenzae strains that establish bacteremia in the infant rat.

The original version of this article unfortunately contained a mistake in the References section. bibliographic details for Zhou et al. (2020) should be corrected to: Q, Guo X, Huang Y, Gao H, Xu Liu S, Zheng W, Zhang TS, Tian CX, Zhu CH, Lin HR, Chen SL De novo sequencing and chromosomal-scale genome assembly leopard coral grouper, Plectropomus leopardus. Mol Ecol Resour. https://doi.org/10.11...