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Relación entre los principales linajes Indígenas del ADN Mitocondrial en las Islas de Puerto Rico y República Dominicana
(2014)
It is well known that indigenous mitochondrial haplogroups A and C are predominant in the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. Medium networks built of sequences of the hypervariable regions of mtDNA have identified 13 ...
Tracing maternal Amerindian ancestry in the Aruban population through mtDNA sequencing
(2011)
As part of a study about pre-Colombian female migrations in the Caribbean, the mitochondrial DNA of the modern Aruban population was studied. The main objective was to identify the haplotypes in the Amerindian haplogroups ...
Genetic Variation in the African Mitochondrial Haplogroup L3e in Puerto Rico
(2012)
This study aims to clarify the uncertainties of the African maternal origin of the Puerto Rico modern population that occurred during the slave trade. Haplogroup L3e was chosen for this study because it combines the ...
No guts, no reef: Understanding the microbiome, genetic diversity, and phylogenetic relationships of the Puerto Rican long-spined black sea urchin, Diadema antillarum, a keystone species of the Caribbean reef
(2020-11-17)
In this paper we describe the gut microbiome of the Puerto Rican keystone sea urchin Diadema antillarum. We also used next generation sequencing of the cytochrome b region to examine the phylogenetic relationships among ...
Chromosomal rearrangements of Psittacidae evolution: zoo-fish in Amazona vittata and in silico analysis of chromosomal rearrangements validated by de novo PCR
(2014)
The Puerto Rican parrot (Amazona vittata, AVI) is a critically endangered species and the only native parrot species remaining on all U.S. territories. After its genome was sequenced through a community-funded project, we ...
Comparative genomics of indels in primate lineages and the possible effect of the MET promoter indel on gene expression
(2016)
Approximately six million years ago, the human and chimpanzee lineages diverged from a common ancestor resulting in two distinct species with a great number of different morphological, behavioral, cognitive and other ...
Polymorphisms influencing the shovel-shaped incisors phenotype in Puerto Rico
(2017)
Puerto Ricans phenotypic traits are a combination of the admixture of their ancestors Taínos with Europeans and Africans. Shovel-shaped incisors are a common trait among Taínos’ skeletons and are still present in the Puerto ...
Mitochondrial phylogeny of Sphaerodactylus species endemic to islands in the Mona Passage and its biogeographical implications
(2011)
Little is known about the natural history of the Sphaerodactylus species endemic to the three islands located in the Mona Passage, mostly because of the logistics of getting to the islands and because of the cryptic behavior ...
Genetic characterization of host-microbiome-pathogen dynamics in ancient Amerindians of Punta Candelero, Puerto Rico
(2020-10-27)
This thesis seeks to address the deficit of ancestral human references from the tropics, specifically the Caribbean, by adding genetic (genomic and microbiomic) information from the ancient Puerto Rican Amerindian population ...