Sergentomyia sintoni is the natural vector of Sauroleishmania species of lizards. This sandfly isabundance in and around the burrows of great gerbils. S. sintoni was collected from peridomestic animalshelters, inside and around houses and also from the nearby burrows of the gerbil reservoir hosts,Rhombomys opimus, in several provinces of Iran. Mitochondrial Cytochrome b (Cyt b) of sandflies, wh...

The present study was carried out to investigate the association of C/T single nucleotide polymorphism(SNP)in exon 5 of stearoyl-CoA desaturase 1 (SCD1) gene and A/C SNP in the 3' untranslated region of oxidized low density lipoprotein receptor 1 (OLR1)gene with milk production traits in Iranian Holstein dairy Cattle. The blood samples of 153 (for OLR1) and 308 (for SCD1) dairy cattle from thre...

Background: Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) have been introduced as a new genomic source for cancer. Therefore, it was decided to conduct a study to evaluate the rs3746444 polymorphism of miR-499 in patients with colon cancer in comparison with healthy subjects. Methods: This case-control study was conducted to investigate rs3746444 polymorphism of miR-...

An enzyme system prepared from maize chloroplasts catalyzes the synthesis of DNA from maize chloroplast DNA sequences cloned in bacterial plasmids. Cloned maize chloroplast DNA fragments Bam HI 17' (2470 bp) and Eco RI x (1368 bp) have been shown to be preferred templates for in vitro DNA synthesis catalyzed by pea chloroplast DNA polymerase preparations [Gold et al. (1987) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sc...

objective: identity the genetic aspects and major gene influence on energy balance, milk production, fertility, food safety and consumer are the recent interests of genetic and breeding researchers. methods: najdi cattle is the most prominent breeds in khuzestan province. to do this plan in shoushtar najdi cattle station, blood samples were taken from 15 najdi cattles. dna was extracted from wh...

Human genes encoding tumor necrosis factor (TNF-a) and lymphotoxin (TNF-/3) are tandemly arranged (1) and located at 6p21.3 (2, 3). Their precise position within MHC has been determined (4, 5). We recently sequenced a 820 bp fragment located 3.5 kb upstream to TNF genes centromeric to HLA-B and used the sequence surrounding the two linked microsatellites to study TNF gene polymorphism (6). We n...

Acetyl-coenzyme A carboxylase α (ACC-alpha) is considered as the key regulatory enzyme in fatty acid biosynthesis. ACC-alpha gene is located on Caprine chromosome 11 and is polymorphic in many goat breeds. In the current study, we aimed to find possible single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the exon 1 region of the ACC-alpha gene in Iranian Mahabadi goat breed. Genomic DNA was extracted fro...

Source/description: A polymorphic MseI restriction site has been observed in a 1.3-kb DNA fragment of the goat as2-casein gene. PCR primers, TL30 and TQ9, were designed from regions of goat as2-Cn cDNA sequence (GenBank accession number X65160) corresponding to exons 5 and 7 of bovine as2-Cn gene (GenBank accession number M943227). Two alleles have been found: the A allele (showing a fragment o...

We have identified and analyzed two DNA regions responsible for stable maintenance of a plasmid in the genus Sphingomonas and Escherichia coli. A 37 bp fragment, upstream of the repA gene, is required for stable maintenance of the low-copy-number small plasmid pYAN-2 (4,687 bp) from Sphingobium yanoikuyae. It does not encode any significant protein sequence and has one direct repeat for possibl...