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Identification of genes and gene expression associated with dispersal capacity in the mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)
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Shegelski, Victor A., Evenden, Maya L., Huber, Dezene P. W., Sperling, Felix A. H.
Dispersal flights by the mountain pine beetle have allowed range expansion and major damage to pine stands in western Canada. We asked what the genetic and transcriptional basis of mountain pine beetle dispersal capacity is. Using flight mills, RNA-seq and a targeted association study, we...
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Implementation of a marauding insect module (MIM, version 10) in the integrated bIosphere simulator (IBIS, version 26b4) dynamic vegetation–land surface model
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Landry, Jean-Sebastion, Price, David T., Ramankutty, Navin, Parrott, Lael, Matthews, H. Damon
Insects defoliate and kill plants in many ecosystems worldwide. The consequences of these natural processes on terrestrial ecology and nutrient cycling are well established, and their potential climatic effects resulting from modified land–atmosphere exchanges of carbon, energy, and water are...
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Intersections of animal production practices on meat quality, intramuscular collagen and expression of genes related to collagen and myofibrillar synthesis and degradation
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Beef quality, particularly tenderness, continues to be a major challenge in the beef industry resulting in significant economic losses. Beef tenderness is influenced by genetic factors, especially the expression of genes associated with collagen and collagen crosslink synthesis, live production...
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Linking genotype to phenotype to identify genetic variation relating to host susceptibility in the mountain pine beetle system
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Cullingham, Catherine I., Peery, Rhiannon M., Fortier, Colleen E., Mahon, Elizabeth L., Cooke, Janice E. K., Coltman, David W.
Identifying genetic variants responsible for phenotypic variation under selective pressure has the potential to enable productive gains in natural resource conservation and management. Despite this potential, identifying adaptive candidate loci is not trivial, and linking genotype to phenotype is...
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2014
Linear mixed model (LMM) analysis has been recently used extensively for estimating additive genetic variances and narrow-sense heritability in many genomic studies. While the LMM analysis is computationally less intensive than the Bayesian algorithms, it remains infeasible for large-scale...
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Mitochondrial DNA variation and identification of bark weevils in the Pissodes strobi species group in western Canada (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)
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Sperling, F. A. H., Langor, D. W.
Abstract: Morphological, allozyme, and chromosomal characters and ecological traits have limited value for discriminating among four closely related Pissodes spp. known from western Canada. We amplified a 1585-bp segment of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), including half of the cytochrome oxidase I...
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Fall 2020
Cardiac transplantation is a life-saving treatment for patients with end-stage heart disease, but it is limited by a shortage of suitable donor hearts. Strategies to expand the donor organ pool include the use of extended donor criteria and hearts donated after circulatory determination of death....
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Molecular systematics of the greater fritillary butterflies (Nymphalidae: Speyeria): reduced representation sequencing, phylogeny, and incipient speciation
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Species delimitation and phylogenetic reconstruction are essential for understanding and categorizing lineage divergences, and ultimately species. Yet, because of the complexities underlying speciation, inferring these patterns and characterizing their sources has been a consistent challenge for...
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Monitoring Macrophage Immune Gene Expression Profiles as an Early Indicator System for Examining the Bioactivity of Oil Sands Process Affected Waters
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Oil sands process-affected waters (OSPW) are by-products of bitumen (i.e. oil) extraction from the oil sands located in northern Alberta. These large volumes of water are held in tailings ponds and cannot be released due to their potential toxic effects. Overall, tailings ponds and mining...