Sandra Lorena Ament

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How can I measure distance between populations across continents?

I'm dealing with a diverse genus (>50 spp) that contains a great deal of cosmopolitan fungal species, and I have a set of DNA sequences of one to three genes. I would like to know if there is a...

04 April 2014 2,788 10 View

How to best estimate recombination rate out of PCR sequence data?

I'm very new to this subject, but my current task is to try to detect any level of recombination in a supposedly asexual haploid species (as a proxy for cryptic sex, maybe). I have information for...

03 March 2014 3,166 0 View

What is the current estimate of the number (or proportion) of Fungal species reproducing asexually?

Since the number of estimated species for the Fungal kingdom is constantly changing, the numbers that I've found in not-so-recent literature may not be adequate anymore. I was wondering what are...

03 March 2014 6,663 1 View

Are there any reports of polyploidy in Nemertea?

So far I am only aware of one modern karyotypic study on Nemerteans (Chen et al. 2007), and some reports on chromosomal numbers. But what about ploidy?

02 February 2014 9,298 0 View

What methods are available to infer polyploidy using Next Generation Sequencing data?

I was wondering if there are any methods available to infer the ploidy level of a non-model species using, say, transcriptome data or something similar. This would be ideal if you have no...

01 January 2014 5,245 16 View