Sentences with phrase «dna phylogenies»
«This scenario reconciles the discrepancy in the nuclear DNA and mitochondrial DNA phylogenies of archaic hominins and the inconsistency of the modern human - Neanderthal population split time estimated from nuclear DNA and mitochondrial DNA,» says researcher Johannes Krause, also of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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Phylogeny of wapiti, red deer, sika deer, and other North American cervids as determined from mitochondrial DNA.
DNA, besides acting as this blueprint, can also provide us with information about our phylogeny, ancestry, environment, susceptibility to disease, and — some claim — our character and possibly our fate.
Past studies looked at the phylogeny (evolution and diversification) of the species in southern parts of Asia based on DNA polymorphisms.
The TENT contradicted some relationships in avian phylogenies generated from morphological characters (15), DNA - DNA hybridization (24), and mitochondrial genomes (14, 18)(Figs. 2, fig.
Working under the guidance of molecular anthropologist Ripan Malhi, she hopes to answer questions about phylogeny, biogeography, and island dwarfism among long - tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) in Southeast Asia by sequencing decades - and even century - old mitochondrial DNA collected from the dried skulls of monkeys in museum collections.
Major patterns of higher teleost phylogenies: a new perspective based on 100 complete mitochondrial DNA sequences.
This phylogeny combines a robust framework for primate families and most genera based on nuclear genes with the expanded taxonomic coverage for genera and species that results from the inclusion of mitochondrial DNA sequences.
Because the polyT repeat is reported as the key variant to define TOMM40 clades A and B, 12 we used this marker and APOE isoform information to perform analyses based on phylogenetic groups as described by Roses et al. 12 Haplotype phase was estimated using PHASE software.22 The phylogeny, which represents the evolutionary relatedness of the haploytpes, was estimated using neighbor - joining with 10 000 bootstrapping replicates in the CLC DNA workbench (CLC bio, Aarhus, Denmark)(Supplemental Figure 3; http://neuroscienceresearch.wustl.edu/Pages/cruchaga2011.aspx).
Genomics in the search for novel signature DNA sequences: We are using our combined expertise on evolutionary phylogeny, prokaryote cell physiology and comparative genomics to identify new signature sequences.
Taxonomic classification of strain NZ1587 (T) was investigated using 16S rRNA and core genome phylogeny, genome - wide average nucleotide identity (ANI) and predicted DNA - DNA hybridisation (DDH) analyses.
Mapping the changes in copy number to the phylogeny of these Y chromosomes previously established by the Project identified at least 20 mutational events, and investigation of flanking paralogous sequence variants showed that the mutations involved flanking sequences in 18 of these, and could extend over > 30 kb of DNA.
As part of the UC Molecular Phylogeny Lab, she used mitochondrial DNA to reconstruction of the evolutionary relationships among several species of California land snails.
S. L. Page and Morris Goodman, «Catarrhine phylogeny: Noncoding DNA evidence for a diphyletic origin of the mangabeys and for a human - chimpanzee clade,» Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 18 (1): 14 - 25 (January 2001).