Sentences with phrase «different microsatellites»

Not exact matches

By examining bits of DNA called microsatellites, which mutate rapidly, Goossens was able to trace individual genetic differences back to a common ancestor and estimate the size of the orangutan population at different times in the past.

Funded by the National Zoological Gardens of South Africa, Rufford's Small Grants for Nature, and the National Geographic Society, Parusnath is developing and testing microsatellite markers similar to those used in human parentage tests to establish the genetic relatedness of Sungazers in different populations across the species» distribution.

While Wells screened the Central Asian Y chromosomes for single - nucleotide mutations such as M45, Zerjal searched for a different DNA variable called a microsatellite.

The distance between these neighboring sequences, called primers, differs between each individual coral due to the number of times the microsatellites are repeated, providing valuable information on the relatedness of different individuals.

Microsatellites are a gene mapper's dream: not only are they repeated different numbers of times in different people, but they are scattered throughout the genome.

The samples were then analyzed with a technique called polymerase chain reaction (PCR), used to amplify specific nuclear «microsatellites» for statistically measuring gene flow between the different populations and subpopulations located in the western South Atlantic (Breeding Stock A) and the eastern South Atlantic and Indian Ocean populations (Breeding Stocks B and C, and the Arabian Sea humpback whale population, respectively).

The classical analysis proceeds by evaluating repeated short DNA sequences (microsatellites) in order to compare samples from different organisms.

Although these islands lie closely together, feral cats of TAS cluster (microsatellite and mitochondrial DNA analyses) into completely different groups from the cats of TASM and FL (Figs. 2 and 3).