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Evolutionary analysis of the female-specific avian W chromosome [PDF]

, 2015
The typically repetitive nature of the sex-limited chromosome means that it is often excluded from or poorly covered in genome assemblies, hindering studies of evolutionary and population genomic processes in non-recombining chromosomes. Here, we present
Bolivar, Paulina, Bures, Stanislav, Burri, Reto, Ellegren, Hans, Garamszegi, Laszlo Z., Hogner, Silje, Moreno, Juan, Nater, Alexander, Qvarnström, Anna, Ruzic, Milan, Smeds, Linnea, Suh, Alexander, Sæther, Stein Are, Sætre, Glenn-Peter, Torok, Janos, Uebbing, Severin, Warmuth, Vera   +16 more
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A Preliminary Assessment of the Potential Health and Genetic Impacts of Releasing Confiscated Passerines Into the Wild: A Reduced-Risk Approach

Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2021
The illegal capture and trade of wild birds have long been threats to biodiversity. The rehabilitation and release of confiscated animals may be a useful conservation tool in species management.
Cláudio E. F. Cruz, Cláudio E. F. Cruz, Gustavo R. Funkler, Gustavo R. Funkler, André L. S. Zani, Paulo G. C. Wagner, Inês Andretta, Luciano N. Segura, Nelson J. R. Fagundes, Nelson J. R. Fagundes   +9 more
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Discordance Between Mitochondrial and Nuclear Contact Zones Within Antelope Ground Squirrels (Ammospermophilus) [PDF]

, 2020
A common biogeographic pattern found in many co-distributed species along the Baja California peninsula is the genetic divergence in the Vizcaíno Desert.
Gray, Shannon
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The complete mitochondrial genome of Aquila nipalensis and its phylogenetic position

Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2019
Mitochondrial genome sequences are valuable resources for systematics and conservation biology studies. In this paper, we present the complete mitogenome of Aquila nipalensis which was 18,450 bp in length.
Chuang Zhou, Hongmei Tu, Yingzhu Chen, Liang Dou, Yang Meng, Nan Yang, Bisong Yue, Yongjie Wu   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Landscape genetics of Schistocephalus solidus parasites in threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) from Alaska. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2015
The nature of gene flow in parasites with complex life cycles is poorly understood, particularly when intermediate and definitive hosts have contrasting movement potential.
C Grace Sprehn, Michael J Blum, Thomas P Quinn, David C Heins   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Population history, gene flow, and bottlenecks in island populations of a secondary seed disperser, the southern grey shrike (Lanius meridionalis koenigi) [PDF]

, 2014
Studying the population history and demography of organisms with important ecological roles can aid understanding of evolutionary processes at the community level and inform conservation.
Aljanabi, Avise, Beaumont, Beerli, Beerli, Clement, Cornuet, Cornuet, Cox, Crawford, Dawson, Drummond, Emerson, Evanno, Excoffier, Garza, Gonzalez, Goslee, Griffiths, Hall, Higgins, Illera, Illera, IUCN, Jombart, Jost, Juan, Kenta, Klassert, MacArthur, Marshall, Martinez, Martín, Mundy, Nogales, Olsson, Padilla, Parker, Piry, Posada, Pritchard, R Development Core Team, Raymond, Ronquist, Rozas, Spurgin, Suárez, Tamura, Weir, Whittaker, Williamson-Natesan, Worley, Zhang   +52 more
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Domination Versus Sisterhoods in the Blood Microbiota of Migrating Birds: Patterns of Within‐ and Between‐Individual Blood Parasite Diversity Revealed Through Metabarcoding

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Avian haemosporidian blood parasites are typically identified through Sanger sequencing of a partial cytochrome b fragment, the MalAvi barcoding region. Next‐generation sequencing is seldom used for avian blood parasite identification; this study demonstrates a higher detection rate of co‐infections via metabarcoding and its possible implications ...
Peter Pibaque, Gaia Porporato, Simone Cescutti, Alanis Cruz‐Flores, Tobias Busche, Anika Winker, Tim Maximilian Rapp, Patrick Bergkamp, Anna Doneva, Nayden Chakarov   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Integrating coalescent species delimitation with analysis of host specificity reveals extensive cryptic diversity despite minimal mitochondrial divergence in the malaria parasite genus Leucocytozoon

BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2018
Background Coalescent methods that use multi-locus sequence data are powerful tools for identifying putatively reproductively isolated lineages, though this approach has rarely been used for the study of microbial groups that are likely to harbor many ...
Spencer C. Galen, Renato Nunes, Paul R. Sweet, Susan L. Perkins   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bloodmeal analysis reveals avian Plasmodium infections and broad host preferences of Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) vectors. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2012
Changing environmental conditions and human encroachment on natural habitats bring human populations closer to novel sources of parasites, which might then develop into new emerging diseases. Diseases transmitted by host generalist vectors are of special
Diego Santiago-Alarcon, Peter Havelka, Hinrich Martin Schaefer, Gernot Segelbacher   +3 more
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Full mitochondrial genome sequences of two endemic Philippine hornbill species (Aves: Bucerotidae) provide evidence for pervasive mitochondrial DNA recombination

BMC Genomics, 2011
Background Although nowaday it is broadly accepted that mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) may undergo recombination, the frequency of such recombination remains controversial.
Bleidorn Christoph, Sammler Svenja, Tiedemann Ralph   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source