Search Results - "DAWSON, DEBORAH A."

Genetic and phenotypic divergence in an island bird: isolation by distance, by colonization or by adaptation? by Spurgin, Lewis G, Illera, Juan Carlos, Jorgensen, Tove H, Dawson, Deborah A, Richardson, David S

“…Discerning the relative roles of adaptive and nonadaptive processes in generating differences among populations and species, as well as how these processes…”
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shaping of genetic variation in edge‐of‐range populations under past and future climate change by Razgour, Orly, Juste, Javier, Ibáñez, Carlos, Kiefer, Andreas, Rebelo, Hugo, Puechmaille, Sébastien J, Arlettaz, Raphael, Burke, Terry, Dawson, Deborah A, Beaumont, Mark, Jones, Gareth, Wiens, John

“…With rates of climate change exceeding the rate at which many species are able to shift their range or adapt, it is important to understand how future changes…”
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Effectiveness of the Derived Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT-C) in Screening for Alcohol Use Disorders and Risk Drinking in the US General Population by Dawson, Deborah A., Grant, Bridget F., Stinson, Frederick S., Zhou, Yuan

“…Background: The three consumption questions from the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT‐C) are increasingly used as a screener for alcohol use…”
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The 12-month prevalence and trends in DSM-IV alcohol abuse and dependence: United States, 1991–1992 and 2001–2002 by Grant, Bridget F, Dawson, Deborah A, Stinson, Frederick S, Chou, S.Patricia, Dufour, Mary C, Pickering, Roger P

“…Background: Alcohol abuse and dependence can be disabling disorders, but accurate information is lacking on the prevalence of current DSM-IV alcohol abuse and…”
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Mortality and potential years of life lost attributable to alcohol consumption by race and sex in the United States in 2005 by Shield, Kevin D, Gmel, Gerrit, Kehoe-Chan, Tara, Dawson, Deborah A, Grant, Bridget F, Rehm, Jürgen

“…Alcohol has been linked to health disparities between races in the US; however, race-specific alcohol-attributable mortality has never been estimated. The…”
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A comparison of SNPs and microsatellites as linkage mapping markers: lessons from the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata) by Ball, Alexander D, Stapley, Jessica, Dawson, Deborah A, Birkhead, Tim R, Burke, Terry, Slate, Jon

“…Genetic linkage maps are essential tools when searching for quantitative trait loci (QTL). To maximize genome coverage and provide an evenly spaced marker…”
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Prospective correlates of drinking cessation: variation across the life-course by Dawson, Deborah A., Goldstein, Risë B., Grant, Bridget F.

“…Aims To assess age variation in correlates of drinking cessation. Design Prospective study of a US general population sample. Setting Face‐to‐face household…”
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Population genetics and geometric morphometrics of the freshwater snail Segmentina nitida reveal cryptic sympatric species of conservation value in Europe by Hobbs, Christopher S., Vega, Rodrigo, Rahman, Farzana, Horsburgh, Gavin J., Dawson, Deborah A., Harvey, Christopher D.

“…Segmentina nitida Müller 1774 is a rare European freshwater snail of drainage ditches and marshland, which has seen a marked decrease in range (~ 80%) over the…”
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Estimating the effect of help-seeking on achieving recovery from alcohol dependence by Dawson, Deborah A., Grant, Bridget F., Stinson, Frederick S., Chou, Patricia S.

“…ABSTRACT Aims  To investigate the effect of help‐seeking on the likelihood of recovery from Diagnostic and Statistical Manual version IV (DSM‐IV) alcohol…”
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Independent colonization of multiple urban centres by a formerly forest specialist bird species by Evans, Karl L., Gaston, Kevin J., Frantz, Alain C., Simeoni, Michelle, Sharp, Stuart P., McGowan, Andrew, Dawson, Deborah A., Walasz, Kazimierz, Partecke, Jesko, Burke, Terry, Hatchwell, Ben J.

“…Urban areas are expanding rapidly, but a few native species have successfully colonized them. The processes underlying such colonization events are poorly…”
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Range expansion and retraction along a moving contact zone has no effect on the genetic diversity of two passerine birds by Engler, Jan O., Secondi, Jean, Dawson, Deborah A., Elle, Ortwin, Hochkirch, Axel

“…Disentangling the factors shaping species distributions remains a central goal in biogeography, ecology and evolutionary biology. The extrinsic pressures that…”
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New methods to identify conserved microsatellite loci and develop primer sets of high cross-species utility - as demonstrated for birds by DAWSON, DEBORAH A, HORSBURGH, GAVIN J, KÜPPER, CLEMENS, STEWART, IAN R.K, BALL, ALEXANDER D, DURRANT, KATE L, HANSSON, BENGT, BACON, IDA, BIRD, SUSANNAH, KLEIN, ÁKOS, KRUPA, ANDREW P, LEE, JIN-WON, MARTÍN-GÁLVEZ, DAVID, SIMEONI, MICHELLE, SMITH, GEMMA, SPURGIN, LEWIS G, BURKE, TERRY

“…We have developed a new approach to create microsatellite primer sets that have high utility across a wide range of species. The success of this method was…”
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Multisource noninvasive genetics of brown bears (Ursus arctos) in Greece reveals a highly structured population and a new matrilineal contact zone in southern Europe by Pylidis, Charilaos, Anijalg, Peeter, Saarma, Urmas, Dawson, Deborah A., Karaiskou, Nikoleta, Butlin, Roger, Mertzanis, Yorgos, Giannakopoulos, Alexios, Iliopoulos, Yorgos, Krupa, Andrew, Burke, Terence A.

“…In human‐dominated landscapes, connectivity is crucial for maintaining demographically stable mammalian populations. Here, we provide a comprehensive…”
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Cooperative investment in public goods is kin directed in communal nests of social birds by Dijk, René E, Kaden, Jennifer C, Argüelles‐Ticó, Araceli, Dawson, Deborah A, Burke, Terry, Hatchwell, Ben J, Westneat, David

“…The tragedy of the commons predicts social collapse when public goods are jointly exploited by individuals attempting to maximize their fitness at the expense…”
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Evidence of long-term structured cuckoo parasitism on individual magpie hosts by Molina-Morales, Mercedes, Martínez, Juan Gabriel, Martín-Gálvez, David, Dawson, Deborah A., Rodríguez-Ruiz, Juan, Burke, Terry, Avilés, Jesús M.

“…1. Brood parasites usually reduce their host's breeding success, resulting in strong selection for the evolution of host defences. Intriguingly, some host…”
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Developmental stability covaries with genome-wide and single-locus heterozygosity in house sparrows by Vangestel, Carl, Mergeay, Joachim, Dawson, Deborah A, Vandomme, Viki, Lens, Luc

“…Fluctuating asymmetry (FA), a measure of developmental instability, has been hypothesized to increase with genetic stress. Despite numerous studies providing…”
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The genetic structure of Nautilus pompilius populations surrounding Australia and the Philippines by Williams, Rachel C., Jackson, Benjamin C., Duvaux, Ludovic, Dawson, Deborah A., Burke, Terry, Sinclair, William

“…Understanding the distribution of genetic diversity in exploited species is fundamental to successful conservation. Genetic structure and the degree of gene…”
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Enhanced cross-species utility of conserved microsatellite markers in shorebirds by Küpper, Clemens, Burke, Terry, Székely, Tamás, Dawson, Deborah A

“…Microsatellite markers are popular genetic markers frequently used in forensic biology. Despite their popularity, the characterisation of polymorphic…”
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The use of microsatellite markers in Neotropical studies of wild birds: a literature review by Moura, Renan F, Dawson, Deborah A, Nogueira, Denise M

“…Despite extensive habitat fragmentation, the Neotropical region possesses 30% of the world´s bird species. Microsatellites have remained one of the most…”
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Identification of 24 new microsatellite loci in the sweat bee Lasioglossum malachurum (Hymenoptera: Halictidae) by Parsons, Paul J, Couchoux, Christelle, Horsburgh, Gavin J, Dawson, Deborah A, Field, Jeremy

“…The objective here is to identify highly polymorphic microsatellite loci for the Palaearctic sweat bee Lasioglossum malachurum. Sweat bees (Hymenoptera:…”
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