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The 29 polymorphic markers discriminated populations of R. appendiculatus and also 4 other Rhipicephalus species, but not R. zambeziensis.
Oocytes were manually separated from the granulosa cells upon hyaluronidase digestion, to discriminate populations.
Y-chromosome markers are known to discriminate populations and groups of populations much more than other polymorphisms, with a global variation among populations of 33-39% [ 55, 56].
Of note, Trop-2 expression appears to discriminate populations with stem-like activity [ 49], which may be important for initiation and perpetuation of cancers [ 50, 51].
We used serum starvation and etoposide, known inducers of apoptosis as positive controls and verified using flow cytometry (AV+ and PI- cells) that serum starvation and 300 μM etoposide induces discriminate populations of AV+ and PI- populations.
However, human management of biological systems (e.g., artificial propagation and habitat alteration) has the potential to increase the rate of gene flow among CUs such that formerly diagnostic neutral markers provide limited power to discriminate populations.
These studies are of particular interest because of the high radiosensitivity of the embryo, fetus, and infant, the use of incidence rather than mortality data, and the ability to discriminate populations in close proximity to nuclear reactors (Fairlie 2009a, 2009b, 2010; Nussbaum 2009).
This lack of ability to discriminate populations underlies the necessity of formulating a null hypothesis via nucleotide mutation frequencies, and confirms the supposition of Deminoff et al.. Complete details of the experimental system and data analyzed in conjunction with the development of our method are presented in Kleinstiver et al. [ 20].
Furthermore, we show that these CNVs are sufficient to discriminate population structure at the continental level, and that some of them are embedded in population-specific haplotypes.
The previously validated algorithm is based on a Differential Threshold (DT) for each channel, and it is used to discriminate population spike events.
