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Counting the genetic ancestors from source populations in members of an admixed population
Lily Agranat-Tamir and others
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Genetics, Volume 226, Issue 4, April 2024, iyae011, https://doi.org/10.1093/genetics/iyae011
Published: 30 January 2024
... the individual’s recent ancestors, who have contributed in a genealogical sense to the individual, and with increasing probability as time proceeds toward the most recent generations, in a genetic sense as well. admixture African-American population genealogies genetic ancestors pedigrees National Science...
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Molecular Genetics of Sex Identification, Breed Ancestry and Polydactyly in the Norwegian Lundehund Breed
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Regina Kropatsch and others
Journal of Heredity, Volume 106, Issue 4, July-August 2015, Pages 403–406, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esv031
Published: 20 May 2015
... of male and female ancestors in this dog breed, we investigate genetic relationships in a cohort of this breed based on both mtDNA and Y-chromosomal markers. Finally, to identify the cause of PPD in the Lundehund breed, we examine the known mutations in the conserved intronic sequence of LMBR1...
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Reticulate evolution in Panicum (Poaceae): the origin of tetraploid broomcorn millet, P. miliaceum
Harriet V. Hunt and others
Journal of Experimental Botany, Volume 65, Issue 12, July 2014, Pages 3165–3175, https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/eru161
Published: 10 April 2014
... of widespread taxonomic applicability in defining relationships and maternal ancestors in reticulate complexes ( Hollingsworth et al., 2009 ), although in some lineages where hybridization is involved, plastid and nuclear phylogenies may be inconsistent ( Fehrer et al., 2007 ). In hybrids...
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Evolution of humeral microanatomy and lifestyle in amniotes, and some comments on palaeobiological inferences
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AURORE CANOVILLE and MICHEL LAURIN
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, Volume 100, Issue 2, June 2010, Pages 384–406, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8312.2010.01431.x
Published: 19 May 2010
... of data, which suggest that it may have been amphibious, rather than aquatic (as a literal interpretation of the models would suggest). Finally, we propose an alternative method of palaeobiological inference for hypothetical ancestors. bone microanatomy comparative biology habitat hypothetical...
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Extremely Intron-Rich Genes in the Alveolate Ancestors Inferred with a Flexible Maximum-Likelihood Approach
Miklós Csűrös and others
Molecular Biology and Evolution, Volume 25, Issue 5, May 2008, Pages 903–911, https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msn039
Published: 21 February 2008
... the evolution of chromalveolates using a general and flexible maximum-likelihood approach indicates that genes of the ancestors of chromalveolates and, particularly, alveolates had unexpectedly high intron densities. It is estimated that the chromalveolate ancestor had, approximately, two-third of the human...
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Continuous Track Analysis: A New Phylogenetic and Biogeographic Method
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John Alroy
Systematic Biology, Volume 44, Issue 2, June 1995, Pages 152–178, https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/44.2.152
Published: 01 June 1995
... character-state transitions only if there are no reticulations. Because hypothetical ancestors do little to reduce the number of fragments, CTA tends to place known taxa or areas at internal nodes. A heuristic algorithm analogous to tree bisection-reconnection is used to find highly parsimonious CTA graphs...
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Metataxon Concepts and Assessing Possible Ancestry Using Phylogenetic Systematics
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J. David Archibald
Systematic Biology, Volume 43, Issue 1, March 1994, Pages 27–40, https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/43.1.27
Published: 01 March 1994
... organisms that are potential direct (but
not necessarily the closest) ancestors to taxa subsequent to it on the cladogram. Metaspecies are
recognized only at the species level, where potential ancestry must be from some group of
organisms within this taxonomic level. The constituent...
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Clusters, species concepts, and Morphological Evolution of Diatoms
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Edward Theriot
Systematic Biology, Volume 41, Issue 2, June 1992, Pages 141–157, https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/41.2.141
Published: 01 June 1992
... morphology of S.yellowstonensis. Centric diatoms Thalassiosiraceae Stephanodiscus species concepts speciation ancestors descendants peripheral isolation Sysl. Biol. 41(2): 141-157, 1992
CLUSTERS, SPECIES CONCEPTS, AND MORPHOLOGICAL
EVOLUTION...
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Shōtoku: Ethnicity, Ritual, and Violence in the Japanese Buddhist Tradition
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Michael I. Como
Published online: 03 October 2011
Published in print: 24 April 2008
... cult over the roughly 200 years following his death—a period that saw a series of revolutionary developments in the history of Japanese religion. It highlights the activities of a cluster of kinship groups who claimed descent from ancestors from the Korean kingdom of Silla. It places these groups...
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A Boy’s Dream
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Tom Wilber
Published: 15 May 2023
... broadly from the Depression-era Mississippi landscape bearing the roots of his pioneering Baptist ancestors and a large extended family—including a great-nephew who bears his name—trying to understand his fate to this day. It would have been whimsical to imagine young Keith, within the life span of one...
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Punctuation—Who Needs It?
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Stephen Spector
Published: 31 October 2022
...0 31 10 2022 Let’s face it: writing isn’t a natural act. Our ancestors may have started speaking between fifty thousand and two million years ago, but it was only five thousand years ago that people started to write. Three thousand more years passed before they began to use a system of little...
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“Black Feminist Love Evangelist” and “Prayer Poet Priestess” Alexis Pauline Gumbs
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Laura L. Sullivan
Published: 16 August 2023
...This chapter brings much-needed scholarly attention to Alexis Pauline Gumbs, whose social justice activism is embodied in her unique spiritual perspectives and practices. Eschewing tenure-track academia to develop her own Black feminism public curriculum, Gumbs practices ancestor reverence inspired...
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A Theopoetics of Exodus and the Africana Spirit in Music
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Sharon Kimberly Williams
Published: 05 September 2023
..., erasure, exile, and ancestral spirits. Gilroy Paul Du Bois W E B Psalms Exodus Houston James M Moore Erika Waltke Bruce K Afrofuturism Afropessimism ancestors exile/exodus Middle Passage spirituals/music theopoetics All throughout the African Diaspora the Spirit is manifest as an exodus...
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Decolonising mindfulness, mindful decolonisation and social work futurities
Michael Yellow Bird and Holly Hatton-Bowers
Published: 28 March 2024
... judgements that collectively lead to social workers being good ancestors to future generations. References Baer, R.A and Krietemeyer, J. ( 2006 ) ‘ Overview of mindfulness-and acceptance-based treatment approaches ’, in R.A. Baer (ed) Mindfulness-based Treatment Approaches: Clinician’s ...
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Advertising the Ancestors: Ghanaian Funeral Banners as Image Objects
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Isabel Bredenbröker
Published: 09 January 2024
... banners may indexically help to recreate the dead in a social process of making death, and they may help to turn bad kinds of death into better, possibly good kinds. While serving to attract visitors to funerals, they also offer semi-permanent sites in which the dead may come to acquire ancestor status...
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Published: 28 April 2015
... of people and space but also in an exaggerated sense of uniqueness. In the British Empire's account, the region was the origin of sacred rivers and of people who were the ancestors of both Indians and Europeans. That is, the British viewed the inhabitants as the ancestors of the Aryan race. They discovered...
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Relations
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Nicholas L. Paul
Published: 06 September 2012
... men and women of the deeds of their crusading ancestors and helped elucidate the place of the crusading past within the social or collective memories of medieval noble families and households. It argues that moments when the itinerant nobility visited particular sites within their domains presented...
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Origins of Egúngún
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Brian Willson
Published: 29 July 2021
... to when human institutions first came into existence and that the Yorùbá have always been associated with ancestor veneration. This chapter argues that Egúngún in Brazil is a distillation and amalgam of different types found in Yorùbáland. It also presents the idea of the terreiro as a microcosmic world...
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Which Norms?
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Allison P. Anoll
Published: 27 January 2022
... orientations towards politics. Two norms are identified: the honoring ancestors norm and helping hands norm. The interviews reveal that both norms are strongly held across groups, but their expression—that is, the behavior that shows compliance with the norm—varies by group. While many Black Americans...
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Honoring Ancestors in Black Buddhist Practice: Rituals of Devotion and Resilience
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Rima Vesely-Flad
Published: 05 April 2022
... and ancestors on Buddhist altars. This chapter emphasizes the importance of honoring ancestors and the land within different lineages as well as practices for incorporating indigenous rituals into Buddhist practices. For indigenous-oriented Buddhist practitioners, the history of ancestors carries meaning...
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