Background While of predominant abundance across vertebrate genomes and significant
biological implications, the relevance of short tandem repeat (STR) abundance to speciation …

Short tandem repeats are hypervariable genetic elements that occur frequently in coding
regions. Their high mutation rate readily generates genetic variation contributing to adaptive …

Across numerous primate species and tissues, SMAD9 (SMAD Family Member 9) gene,
reaches the highest level of expression in the human brain. This gene contains a short …

Abstract Tandem Repeats (TRs) are a class of genetic variants formed by motifs of 1-20
nucleotides repeating in tandem. Previous studies show that expansion at specific TR loci is …

Forensic science deals with the scientific investigation of evidence collected from crime
scenes. Since decades, forensic scientists have solved complex and sophisticated crimes …

Cell lineage analysis aims to uncover the developmental history of an organism back to its
cell of origin. Recently, novel in vivo methods and technologies utilizing genome editing …

The ribosomal DNA (rDNA) encodes the ribosomal RNAs and is present in tens to
thousands of tandemly repeated copies in eukaryotic genomes. rDNA copy number varies …

Paralichthys adspersus is a native species from the Pacific coast of South America that is of
great economic importance for Peruvian aquaculture. Even though establishing sustainable …

Background: The evolutionary trend of short tandem repeats (STRs) at the crossroads of
speciation remains largely elusive and attributed to random evolution for the most part. To …

The evolutionary trend of short tandem repeats (STRs) at the crossroads of speciation
remains largely elusive and attributed to random evolution for the most part. Here we …