… Interestingly, the father of the one F1 migrant detected between the East and West Coasts
would have traveled in opposition to the prevailing direction of migration and D’Urville Current, …

… , the Polychaetes, for which we had the poorest amplification success, showed the largest
genetic divergence among aligned 16S sequences of all classes examined in this study (d = …

The N ew Z ealand endemic M aui's dolphin ( C ephalorhynchus hectori maui) is considered
‘critically endangered’ by the I nternational U nion for the C onservation of N ature as a …

… Finally, polymorphisms across the cattle NKC, and likely other species, further expands the
available NK cell receptor repertoire, particularly in the KLRC/D and KLRA systems. These …

… Cattle also have a highly expanded and diverse NK cell receptor system, having multiple
polymorphic KIR and KLRC/D receptors encoded within the leukocyte receptor complex 25-27 …

The phrynophiurid brittle star Astrotoma agassizii is abundant in the cold temperate Magellanic
region of South America and has a circumpolar Antarctic distribution. Three genetically …

… d N (6.5%) than synonymous substitutions d S (1.6%) (P < 0.05). This difference was
more pronounced for the peptide-binding region with d N (21.6%) and d S (0.0) (P < 0.05). …

… al., 2006; Webb et al., 2006; Grant & Linse, 2009), although few studies on coastal
meroplankton have broadly employed this technique to the entire meroplankton community (Heimeier …

Genes of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) play a key role in the initiation of immune
response in jawed vertebrates. Variation at MHC loci can be used as an indicator of the …

… In addition, measures of the ratio of nonsynonymous to synonymous substitutions (d N /d
S ) were consistent with balancing selection over evolutionary time. Together, these results …