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Title The limitations of kinship determinations using STR data in ill-defined populations Type Journal
Year 2020 Publication International Journal of Legal Medicine Abbreviated Journal
Volume 134 Issue (down) 6 Pages 1981-1990
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Abstract The likelihood ratio (LR) method is commonly used to determine kinship in civil, criminal, or forensic cases. For the past 15 years, our research group has also applied LR to ancient STR data and obtained kinship results for collections of graves or necropolises. Although we were able to reconstruct large genealogies, some pairs of individuals showed ambiguous results. Second-degree relationships, half-sibling pairs for example, were often inconsistent with detected first-degree relationships, such as parent/child or brother/sister pairs. We therefore set about providing empirical estimations of the error rates for the LR method in living populations with STR allelic diversities comparable to that of the ancient populations we had previously studied. We collected biological samples in the field in North-Eastern Siberia and West Africa and studied more than 800 pairs of STR profiles from individuals with known relationships. Because commercial STR panels were constructed for specific regions (namely Europe and North America), their allelic makeup showed a significant deficit in diversity when compared to European populations, replicating a situation often faced in ancient DNA studies. We assessed the capacity of the LR method to confirm known relationships (effectiveness) and its capacity to detect those relationships (reliability). Concerns over the effectiveness of LR determinations are mostly an issue in forensic studies, while the reliability of the detection of kinship is an issue for the study of necropolises or other large gatherings of unidentified individuals, such as disaster victims or mass graves. We show that the application of LR to both test populations highlights specific issues (both false positives and false negatives) that prevent the confirmation of second-degree kinship or even full siblingship in small populations. Up to 29% of detected full sibling relationships were either overestimated half-sibling relationships or underestimated parent-offspring relationships. The error rate for detected half-sibling relationships was even higher, reaching 41%. Only parent-offspring pairs were reliably detected or confirmed. This implies that, in populations that are small, ill-defined, or for which the STR loci analyzed are inappropriate, an examiner might not be able to distinguish a pair of full siblings from a pair of half-siblings. Furthermore, half-sibling pairs might be overlooked altogether, an issue that is exacerbated by the common confusion, in many languages and cultures, between half-siblings and full siblings. Consequently, in the study of ancient populations, human remains of unknown origins, or poorly surveyed modern populations, we recommend a conservative approach to kinship determined by LR. Next-generation sequencing data should be used when possible, but the costs and technology involved might be prohibitive. Therefore, in potentially contentious situations or cases lacking sufficient external information, uniparental markers should be analyzed: ideally, complete mitochondrial genomes and Y-chromosome haplotypes (STR, SNP, and/or sequencing).
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ISSN 1437-1596 ISBN Medium
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Call Number Serial 8059
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Author Yves Cherel
Title A review of Southern Ocean squids using nets and beaks Type Journal
Year 2020 Publication Marine Biodiversity Abbreviated Journal
Volume 50 Issue (down) 6 Pages 98
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Abstract This review presents an innovative approach to investigate the teuthofauna from the Southern Ocean by combining two complementary data sets, the literature on cephalopod taxonomy and biogeography, together with predator dietary investigations. Sixty squids were recorded south of the Subtropical Front, including one circumpolar Antarctic (Psychroteuthis glacialis Thiele, 1920), 13 circumpolar Southern Ocean, 20 circumpolar subantarctic, eight regional subantarctic, and 12 occasional subantarctic species. A critical evaluation removed five species from the list, and one species has an unknown taxonomic status. The 42 Southern Ocean squids belong to three large taxonomic units, bathyteuthoids (n?=?1 species), myopsids (n?=?1), and oegopsids (n?=?40). A high level of endemism (21 species, 50%, all oegopsids) characterizes the Southern Ocean teuthofauna. Seventeen families of oegopsids are represented, with three dominating families, onychoteuthids (seven species, five endemics), ommastrephids (six species, three endemics), and cranchiids (five species, three endemics). Recent improvements in beak identification and taxonomy allowed making new correspondence between beak and species names, such as Galiteuthis suhmi (Hoyle 1886), Liguriella podophtalma Issel, 1908, and the recently described Taonius notalia Evans, in prep. Gonatus phoebetriae beaks were synonymized with those of Gonatopsis octopedatus Sasaki, 1920, thus increasing significantly the number of records and detailing the circumpolar distribution of this rarely caught Southern Ocean squid. The review extends considerably the number of species, including endemics, recorded from the Southern Ocean, but it also highlights that the corresponding species to two well-described beaks (Moroteuthopsis sp. B and Psychroteuthis sp. B) are still unknown.
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ISSN 1867-1624 ISBN Medium
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Call Number Serial 8072
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Author Q. Libois, G. Picard, J. L. France, L. Arnaud, M. Dumont, C. M. Carmagnola, M. D. King
Title Influence of grain shape on light penetration in snow Type Journal
Year 2013 Publication The Cryosphere Abbreviated Journal
Volume 7 Issue (down) 6 Pages 1803-1818
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Programme 1011,1013
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Corporate Author Thesis Bachelor's thesis
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ISSN 1994-0416 ISBN Medium
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Call Number Serial 8148
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Author Claudio Tomasi, Boyan H. Petkov, Elena Benedetti
Title Type Journal
Year 2012 Publication Antarctic science Abbreviated Journal
Volume 24 Issue (down) 6 Pages 637-658
Keywords Antarctic tropopause atmospheric water radiosonde data seasonal temperatures temperature inversion
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ISSN 0954-1020, 1365-2079 ISBN Medium
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Call Number Serial 8156
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Title Responses of the arcto-boreal krill species Thysanoessa inermis to variations in water temperature: coupling Hsp70 isoform expressions with metabolism Type Journal
Year 2016 Publication Cell Stress and Chaperones Abbreviated Journal
Volume 21 Issue (down) 6 Pages 969-981
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ISSN 1466-1268 ISBN Medium
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Call Number Serial 8176
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Title Diversity of Antarctic Echinoids and Ecoregions of the Southern Ocean Type Journal
Year 2020 Publication Biology bulletin Abbreviated Journal
Volume 47 Issue (down) 6 Pages 683-698
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Abstract Significant environmental changes have already been documented in the Southern Ocean (e.g. sea water temperature increase and salinity drop) but its marine life is still incompletely known given the heterogeneous nature of biogeographic data. However, to establish sustainable conservation areas, understanding species and communities distribution patterns is critical. For this purpose, the ecoregionalization approach can prove useful by identifying spatially explicit and well-delimited regions of common species composition and environmental settings. Such regions are expected to have similar biotic responses to environmental changes and can be used to define priorities for the designation of Marine Protected Areas. In the present work, a benthic ecoregionalization of the Southern Ocean is proposed based on echinoids distribution data and abiotic environmental parameters. Echinoids are widely distributed in the Southern Ocean, they are taxonomically and ecologically well diversified and documented. Given the heterogeneity of the sampling effort, predictive spatial models were produced to fill the gaps in between species distribution data. A first procedure was developed using Gaussian Mixture Models (GMM) to combine individual species models into ecoregions. A second, integrative procedure was implemented using the Generalized Dissimilarity Models (GDM) to model and assemble species distributions. Both procedures were compared to propose benthic ecoregions at the scale of the entire Southern Ocean.
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ISSN 1608-3059 ISBN Medium
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Call Number Serial 6698
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Title Plutonic processes in transitional oceanic plateau crust: Structure, age and emplacement of the South Rallier du Baty laccolith, Kerguelen Islands Type Journal
Year 2020 Publication Terra Nova Abbreviated Journal
Volume 32 Issue (down) 6 Pages 408-414
Keywords alkaline magmatism Kerguelen oceanic plateau pluton emplacement syenite intrusion
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Programme 444-1077
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ISSN 1365-3121 ISBN Medium
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Call Number Serial 8270
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Title Fishing behaviours and fisher effect in decision-making processes when facing depredation by marine predators Type Journal
Year 2021 Publication Fisheries Management and Ecology Abbreviated Journal
Volume 28 Issue (down) 6 Pages 528-541
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ISSN 1365-2400 ISBN Medium
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Call Number Serial 8307
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Title Incisor microwear of Arctic rodents as a proxy for microhabitat preference Type Journal
Year 2021 Publication Mammalian Biology Abbreviated Journal
Volume 101 Issue (down) 6 Pages 1033-1052
Keywords Arctic Environment Habitats Narrow-headed vole Russia Siberian lemming Tooth wear Tundra Yamal Peninsula
Abstract Changing environmental conditions in the Arctic make it important to document and understand habitat preferences and flexibility of vulnerable high-latitude mammals. Indirect proxies are especially useful for elusive species, such as rodents. This study explores incisor microwear as an indicator of variation in behavior and microhabitat use in Siberian lemmings (Lemmus sibiricus) and narrow-headed voles (Lasiopodomys gregalis) from the Yamal Peninsula, Russia. Fifty-nine individuals were sampled at four sites along a latitudinal gradient from forest-tundra ecotone to high-Arctic tundra. Lemmings are present at the northernmost site, voles at the southernmost site, and both species at the middle two. Lemmus sibiricus prefers wet, mossy lowland, whereas La. gregalis favors drier thickets and more open microhabitats and burrows underground. Feature-based analyses indicate higher densities of features and more uniformly oriented striations for voles than lemmings at sites with both species. The species also differ significantly in microwear texture attributes suggesting larger features for lemmings, and smaller ones, but more of them, for voles. While no texture differences were found between sites within species, voles from sites with open tundra have higher striation densities than those from the forest-tundra ecotone. Furthermore, lemmings from open tundra sites have higher striation densities than those from the water-saturated, moss-covered northernmost site. While microhabitat preferences and burrowing by voles likely contribute to differences between species, variation within seems to reflect habitat variation given differences in abrasive loads between sites. This suggests that incisor microwear patterning can be used to track microhabitat differences among Arctic rodent populations.
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ISSN 1618-1476 ISBN Medium
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Call Number Serial 8377
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Title Regional Characteristics of Atmospheric Sulfate Formation in East Antarctica Imprinted on 17O-Excess Signature Type Journal
Year 2021 Publication Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres Abbreviated Journal
Volume 126 Issue (down) 6 Pages e2020JD033583
Keywords aerosols Antarctica isotope methanesulfonate sulfate
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Programme 1177
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ISSN 2169-8996 ISBN Medium
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Call Number Serial 8412
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