morphological and rapd markers were used to investigate the genetic diversity among 21 accessions of pomegranate originating from south eastern tunisia. thirteen morphological traits were studied and results showed significant differences for all morphological characters (p< 0.001). clustering based on fruit traits, using ward’s method, divided the accessions into three main groups. in rapd ana...

prophet of pou1f1 (prop1) plays direct or indirect important roles in the morphogenesis of pituitary gonadotropes as well as lactotropes, somatotropes and caudomedial thyrotropes. it also controls the expression of growth hormone, prolactin and thyrotropin subunits through regulatory pit1 factor. these hormones have important influences on production traits in most animal species including the ...

background: the osteopontin (opn) is a highly phosphorylated glycoprotein in numbers of bovine tissues and milk. opn has been reported to be associated with milk production in cattle.objective: the genotype and allelic frequencies for opn and its association with milk production will be evaluated in iranian holstein bulls.  materials and methods: bulls dna (100) was isolated. oligo was used for...

microsatellite markers were used to identify informative markers associated with traits lattice shape of pod, belly shape in pod, pod length, pod width, grain number per pod, grain weight, grain weight/pod weight, grain length, grain width, pod number per plant, grain number per plant, pod weight per plant, grain weight per plant in peanut. thirteen ssr primer pairs amplified 80 alleles among 6...

SUMMARY Mixed model-based approaches to genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of binary traits in related individuals can account for non-genetic risk factors in an integrated manner. However, they are technically challenging. GLOGS (Genome-wide LOGistic mixed model/Score test) addresses such challenges with efficient statistical procedures and a parallel implementation. GLOGS has high power r...

Women's preferences for men's masculinized faces and voices were assessed after women (n = 331) were primed with images of male-on-male aggression, male-on-female aggression, pathogens, and neutral scenes. Male-on-male aggression and pathogen primes were associated with increased preference for masculine traits, but the same effect emerged in the neutral condition. We show the increased prefere...