Phenotypes, DNA, and measures of ecological differences are widely used in species delimitation. Although rarely defined in such studies, ecological divergence is almost always approximated using multivariate climatic data associated with sets of specimens (i.e., the "climatic niche"); the justification for this approach is that species-specific climatic envelopes act as surrogates for physiolo...

Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) of soybean (Glycine max L.) was isolated and its buoyant density was contrasted with that of nuclear (nDNA) and chloroplast (ctDNA) DNA. Each of the three DNAs banded at a single, characteristic buoyant density when centrifuged to equilibrium in a CsCl gradient. Buoyant densities were 1.694 g/cm(3) for nDNA and 1.706 g/cm(3) for mtDNA. These values correspond to G-C co...

BACKGROUND There are still concerns about the safety of intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) due to its brief clinical record and lack of animal testing. Testicular and epididymal sperm are now used routinely for ICSI in patients with obstructive azoospermia. The use of such immature sperm compounds fears, since little is known of their mitochondrial and nuclear DNA quality. METHODS A modi...

The lizard genus Xantusia of southwestern North America has received recent attention in relation to delimiting species. Using more than 500 lizards from 156 localities, we further test hypothesized species boundaries and clarify phylogeographical patterns, particularly in regions of potential secondary contact. We sequenced the entire mitochondrial cytochrome b gene for every lizard in the stu...

Mitochondria are found in all nucleated human cells and perform various essential functions, including the generation of cellular energy. Mitochondria are under dual genome control. Only a small fraction of their proteins are encoded by mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), whereas more than 99% of them are encoded by nuclear DNA (nDNA). Mutations in mtDNA or mitochondria-related nDNA genes result in mito...

Damage to mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) has been postulated to be associated with aging, cancer, and other chronic degenerative diseases which are the predominant causes of death in the population. We used molecular dosimetry techniques, i.e., 32P postlabeling and synchronous fluorescence spectrophotometry, in order to evaluate the formation of adducts to both mtDNA and nuclear DNA (nDNA) in differ...

Over 3500 accessions of Andean landraces have been known in potato, classified into 7 cultivated species ranging from 2x to 5x (Hawkes 1990). Chloroplast DNA (ctDNA), distinguished into T, W, C, S, and A types, showed extensive overlaps in their frequencies among cultivated species and between cultivated and putative ancestral wild species. In this study, 76 accessions of cultivated and 19 acce...

To evaluate the influence of diet on faecal DNA amplification, 11 captive brown bears ( Ursus arctos ) were placed on six restricted diets: grass ( Trifolium spp., Haplopappus hirtus and Poa pratensis ), alfalfa ( Lupinus spp.), carrots ( Daucus spp.), white-tailed deer ( Odocoileus virginianus ), blueberries ( Vaccinium spp.) and salmon ( Salmo spp.). DNA was extracted from 50 faecal samples o...

Compatibility between the nuclear (nDNA) and mitochondrial (mtDNA) genomes is important for organismal health. However, its significance for major evolutionary processes such as speciation is unclear, especially in vertebrates. We previously identified a sharp mtDNA-specific sequence divergence between morphologically indistinguishable chameleon populations (Chamaeleo chamaeleon recticrista) ac...

The internet’s future architecture, known as Named Data Networking (NDN), is a creative way to offer content-based services. NDN more appropriate for content distribution because of its special characteristics, such naming conventions packets and methods in-network caching. Mobility one the main study areas this innovative internet architecture. software-defined networking (SDN) method, which e...