Eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) is the third most important solanaceous vegetable and diversified within species spread across world-geographical area. A study was conducted to assess genetic diversity among selected fifty-four eggplant genotypes (sub-categorized into five sub-population) using twenty-three SSR markers. The Analysis of Molecular Variance sub-population revealed existence 90.67%...

The effects of inbreeding on heterozygosities and reproductive fitness were determined by carrying out full-sib and double first-cousin inbreeding in Drosophila melanogaster populations for up to 18 generations. Parents were scored each generation for five or six polymorphic enzyme loci, and progeny numbers per pair were recorded. Inbreeding depression, in the form of significant reductions in ...

UNLABELLED PREMISE OF THE STUDY Development of microsatellite markers for the vulnerable forb Senecio macrocarpus was performed to begin an assessment of its population structure and breeding method to aid in the conservation of the species in Victoria, Australia. • METHODS AND RESULTS Fifteen microsatellite markers were developed for S. macrocarpus from 454 pyrosequencing. The markers wer...

Amblyomma aureolatum (Pallas) is the main vector of the bacterium Rickettsia rickettsii, the etiological agent of Brazilian spotted fever. This disease is the most lethal human spotted fever rickettsiosis in the world. Microsatellite loci were isolated from a dinucleotide-enriched library produced from A. aureolatum sampled in Southeastern Brazil. Eight polymorphic microsatellites were further ...

PREMISE OF THE STUDY Microsatellite markers were developed in Veratrum maackii (Melanthiaceae) to assess the pattern of population genetic structures across the species' distribution. METHODS AND RESULTS Ten polymorphic loci were isolated from V. maackii using 454 shotgun pyrosequencing and the biotin capture method. The number of alleles per locus ranged from three to 19. The observed hetero...

UNLABELLED PREMISE OF THE STUDY To facilitate genetic and conservation research of Cornus sanguinea, microsatellite loci were isolated and 29 individuals from 11 German populations were genotyped. • METHODS AND RESULTS Sixteen microsatellite loci were characterized from an enriched small insert genomic library. The number of alleles detected ranged from five to 11 per locus, observed heter...

Recombinant inbred populations of many plant species exhibit more heterozygosity than expected under the Mendelian model of segregation. This segregation distortion causes the overestimation of recombination frequencies and consequent genetic map expansion. Here we build upon existing genetic models of differential zygotic viability to model a heterozygote fitness term and calculate expected ge...

background: major histocompatibility complex (mhc) comprises a group of genes, which plays a central role in immune response. the exon 2 of bula-drb3 is part of the mhc class ii in buffalo that highly polymorphic, found to be associated with resistance/susceptibility to infections and also with production parameters. objectives: the purpose of the present study is to identify bula-drb3 polymorp...

We describe isolation and characterization of the first microsatellite loci specifically developed for African weakly electric fish (Mormyridae), for the genus Campylomormyrus . Seventeen of our 18 loci are polymorphic within the Campylomormyrus numenius species complex . The polymorphic loci showed four to 15 alleles per locus, an expected heterozygosity between 0.46 and 0.94, and an observed ...

UNLABELLED PREMISE OF THE STUDY We developed microsatellite markers for Fimbristylis sericea, a coastal herb found in sand dunes in Asia and Australia. • METHODS AND RESULTS Twelve microsatellite loci were isolated, and the genetic variability within and among local populations was characterized. The number of alleles per locus was two to five with a mean of 3.5, total expected heterozygos...