Significance of micro-geographical population structure in forensic cases: a bayesian exploration

2003 ◽  
Vol 117 (5) ◽  
pp. 302-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mar�a T. Zarrabeitia ◽  
Jos� A. Riancho ◽  
Mar�a V. Lareu ◽  
Francisco Leyva-Cobi�n ◽  
Angel Carracedo
2018 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 180-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Yesson ◽  
Amy Jackson ◽  
Stephen Russell ◽  
Christopher J. Williamson ◽  
Juliet Brodie

Parasitology ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 143 (6) ◽  
pp. 732-740 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. M. P. CANTATORE ◽  
M. M. IRIGOITIA ◽  
A. S. HOLZER ◽  
J. T. TIMI

SUMMARYMyxozoans have been successfully used as tags for fish stock identification around the world. However, few studies using myxozoan tags have been carried out in the Southern Atlantic, a region with complex oceanography that constitutes a potentially suitable scenario for testing the utility of myxozoans as indicators. Its usefulness was tested using six samples of Merluccius hubbsi in two different regions of the Argentine Sea. Generalized linear models were performed to assess the effects of fish size and sex, and year and region of capture and selected using the Information Theoretic approach. Three myxozoan species were recorded: Kudoa rosenbuschi, Myxoproteus meridionalis and Fabespora sp. Results of modelling species individually showed differential capabilities for detecting geographical population structure at different spatial scales, with K. rosenbuschi and Fabespora sp. allowing the discrimination of northern and southern stocks, but Fabespora sp. also as a promissory indicator of intrapopulation sub-structure due to different migratory routes during non-reproductive periods. This work confirms that myxozoans offer a set of suitable markers at different spatial scales, which can be selected individually or in any combination, depending on the geographical extent of the study, constituting tools adaptable to the objectives of further research on fish population structure.


Parasitology ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 146 (07) ◽  
pp. 947-955 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xi Zhang ◽  
Xiu Hong ◽  
Jiang Yang Duan ◽  
Lu Lu Han ◽  
Zi Yang Hong ◽  
...  

AbstractThe plerocercoid (sparganum) of Spirometra erinaceieuropaei is the main aetiological agent of human sparganosis. To improve the current knowledge on S. erinaceieuropaei evolution, we performed multi-locus microsatellite typing of sparganum isolates from China for the first time. All available expressed sequence tag (EST) sequences for the Spirometra were downloaded from the GenBank. The identification and localization of microsatellites in ESTs was accomplished by MISA. Based on the selected microsatellites, the genetic structure of 64 sparganum isolates collected from 11 geographical locations in southwest China were investigated through principal component analysis, STRUCTURE analysis and neighbour-joining clustering. A total of 522 non-redundant ESTs containing 915 simple sequence repeats were identified from 12 481 ESTs screened. Five primer pairs were finally selected. Using these loci, a total of 12 alleles were detected in 64 sparganum isolates. Little variability was observed within each of geographical population, especially among isolates derived from Kunming of Yunnan (YN-KM) province. Both STRUCTURE analysis and the clustering analysis supported that two genotypes existed among the sparganum isolates from southwest China. In conclusion, five microsatellite markers were successfully developed, and sparganum population was observed to harbour low genetic variation, further investigation with deeper sampling was needed to elucidate the population structure.


2020 ◽  
Vol 52 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anpei Zhou ◽  
Dan Zong ◽  
Peihua Gan ◽  
Yao Zhang ◽  
Dan Li ◽  
...  

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 102-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evgenyi N. Panov ◽  
Larissa Yu. Zykova

Field studies were conducted in Central Negev within the breeding range of Laudakia stellio brachydactyla and in NE Israel (Qyriat Shemona) in the range of an unnamed form (tentatively “Near-East Rock Agama”), during March – May 1996. Additional data have been collected in Jerusalem at a distance of ca. 110 km from the first and about 170 km from the second study sites. A total of 63 individuals were caught and examined. The animals were marked and their subsequent movements were followed. Social and signal behavior of both forms were described and compared. Lizards from Negev and Qyriat Shemona differ from each other sharply in external morphology, habitat preference, population structure, and behavior. The differences obviously exceed the subspecies level. At the same time, the lizards from Jerusalem tend to be intermediate morphologically between those from both above-named localities, which permits admitting the existence of a limited gene flow between lizard populations of Negev and northern Israel. The lizards from NE Israel apparently do not belong to the nominate subspecies of L. stellio and should be regarded as one more subspecies within the species.


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