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Statistical and Quantitative Genetics Studies
Quantitative genetics and plant breeding are non-exclusive and these disciplines has been benefited from each other for the past 100 years. As a...
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Bioinformatics for Plant Genetics and Breeding Research
Global food demand is expected to increase between 55 and 70% by 2050. Plant breeders and geneticists are constantly under pressure to develop...
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Computational modelling of plasticity-led evolution
Plasticity-led evolution is a form of evolution where a change in the environment induces novel traits via phenotypic plasticity, after which the...
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Benchmarking computational variant effect predictors by their ability to infer human traits
BackgroundComputational variant effect predictors offer a scalable and increasingly reliable means of interpreting human genetic variation, but...
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Genetics
Genetic research on insect natural enemies was, until relatively recently, rare and was essentially limited to parasitoid wasps and some coccinellid...
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Population Genetics of Cuba’s Scleractinian Corals
Cuba’s coasts support a large area of diverse and relatively healthy coral communities that are centrally located at the interface of the northern...
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Restoration Genetics – A Consideration of Lessons and Opportunities
Genetics has provided key insights for improving ecological restoration outcomes over several decades. It is now well established that low genetic...
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Bioinformatics and Computational Tools
Proteomics and bioinformatics are now considered as very important tools for the characterization and understanding of any food biomolecules. It has...
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Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Bioinformatics and computational biology integrate computer science, molecular biology, statistics, mathematics, and engineering to collect, manage,...
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Fundamentals of Genetics
Genetics is a dynamic and rapidly advancing field of biology that has found applications in all dimensions of human life. Breakthrough genetic...
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Classic Genetics and Traditional Breeding of Tea Plant
The tea plant is an important beverage crop cultivated worldwide. It belongs to the genus Camellia and is generally identified as diploid with a...
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Genetics of Abiotic Stress in Flax
Abiotic stresses threaten global crop productivity, and this threat is exacerbated as a consequence of climate change and environmental deterioration...
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The Comes and Goes of the Black Box Perspective in Quantitative Genetics
Since its birth and for a long time, quantitative genetics assumed the infinitesimal model as a simplistic baseline on which to sustain a top-down...
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Challenges with Conservation Genetics and Genomics in Neotropical Forest
Several accounts of the exceptional richness of neotropical forests were recognized by European peoples of the “New World”. For this reason, the...
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Open problems in human trait genetics
Genetic studies of human traits have revolutionized our understanding of the variation between individuals, and yet, the genetics of most traits is...
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Innovative computational tools provide new insights into the polyploid wheat genome
Bread wheat ( Triticum aestivum ) is an important crop and serves as a significant source of protein and calories for humans, worldwide. Nevertheless,...
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Metagenomics-enabled reverse-genetics assembly and characterization of myotis bat morbillivirus
Morbilliviruses are among the most contagious viral pathogens of mammals. Although previous metagenomic surveys have identified morbillivirus...
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Interaction models matter: an efficient, flexible computational framework for model-specific investigation of epistasis
PurposeEpistasis, the interaction between two or more genes, is integral to the study of genetics and is present throughout nature. Yet, it is seldom...
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Tutorial: integrative computational analysis of bulk RNA-sequencing data to characterize tumor immunity using RIMA
RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) has become an increasingly cost-effective technique for molecular profiling and immune characterization of tumors. In the...
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Developmental Genetics
The foundation of the genetic approach to understand the development of an organism is that all the information is already encoded in an organism’s...