Self-incompatibility in Brassica entails the rejection of pollen grains that express specificities held in common with the seed parent. In Brassica, pollen specificity is encoded at the multipartite S-locus, a complex region comprising many expressed genes. A number of species within the Brassicaceae express sporophytic self-incompatibility, under which individual pollen grains bear specificiti...

The genetic diversity and population structure of the foliose lichenized fungus Parmelina tiliacea has been analyzed through its geographical range, including samples from Macaronesia (Canary Islands), the Mediterranean, and Eurosiberia. DNA sequences from the nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer, the mitochondrial large subunit ribosomal RNA gene, and the translation elongation factor...

A viral population can contain a large and diverse collection of viral haplotypes which play important roles in maintaining the viral population. We present an algorithm for reconstructing viral haplotypes in a population from paired-end Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data. We propose a novel polynomial time dynamic programming based approximation algorithm for generating top paths through ea...

Analysis of DNA sequence diversity at the 12S to 16S mitochondrial genes of 165 African lions (Panthera leo) from five main areas in Zambia has uncovered haplotypes which link Southern Africa with East Africa. Phylogenetic analysis suggests Zambia may serve as a bridge connecting the lion populations in southern Africa to eastern Africa, supporting earlier hypotheses that eastern-southern Afric...

in this research, two mating schemes for the management of recessive genetic disorders affecting abortion in a dairy cattle population were simulated. the first mating scheme was performed under three different scenarios: 1. the mating of a pair of two carriers of the same lethal haplotype was avoided. 2. it was avoided matings in which the service sires and cow's sire carried the same let...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to investigate the relationships of chitinase 3-like 1 (CHI3L1) single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and haplotypes with the development of uterine cervical cancer in Taiwanese women. The SNPs frequencies and haplotypes were also correlated with the clinicopathologic variables of cervical cancer, cancer recurrence, and patient survival. METHODOLOGY AND PRINCIPAL ...

Pedunculate oak (Quercus robur L.) is one of the main forest forming species in Republic Belarus. 18 allelic variants were identified by means microsatellite loci analysis, which are grouped into 17 different combinations (haplotypes). Twelve them rare (the total frequency occurrence 15 %) and five widespread proportion varies from 7 to 48 %). The last named groups includes haplotypes No. 1 (μd...