How bioinformatics enables livestock applied sciences in the genomic era

This review paper presents the three main approaches currently used in livestock genomic sciences where the bioinfomatics plays a critical role. They are named as Genomic Selection (GS), Genome Wide Association Study (GWAS) and Signatures of Selection (SS). The subsides for the construction of this article were generated in a current project (started in 2011), so called Zebu Genome Consortium (ZGC), which joins researchers from different institutions and countries, aiming to scientifically explore genomic information of Bos taurus indicus cattle breeds and deliver useful information to breeders and academic community, specially from the tropical regions of the world. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.

Crecimiento económico y desarrollo humano en América Latina

Incluye Bibliografía

Economic growth and human development in Latin America

Includes bibliography

Detecting Loci under Recent Positive Selection in Dairy and Beef Cattle by Combining Different Genome-Wide Scan Methods

As the methodologies available for the detection of positive selection from genomic data vary in terms of assumptions and execution, weak correlations are expected among them. However, if there is any given signal that is consistently supported across different methodologies, it is strong evidence that the locus has been under past selection. In this paper, a straightforward frequentist approach based on the Stouffer Method to combine P-values across different tests for evidence of recent positive selection in common variations, as well as strategies for extracting biological information from the detected signals, were described and applied to high density single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data generated from dairy and beef cattle (taurine and indicine). The ancestral Bovinae allele state of over 440,000 SNP is also reported. Using this combination of methods, highly significant (P<3.17×10-7) population-specific sweeps pointing out to candidate genes and pathways that may be involved in beef and dairy production were identified. The most significant signal was found in the Cornichon homolog 3 gene (CNIH3) in Brown Swiss (P = 3.82×10-12), and may be involved in the regulation of pre-ovulatory luteinizing hormone surge. Other putative pathways under selection are the glucolysis/gluconeogenesis, transcription machinery and chemokine/cytokine activity in Angus; calpain-calpastatin system and ribosome biogenesis in Brown Swiss; and gangliosides deposition in milk fat globules in Gyr. The composite method, combined with the strategies applied to retrieve functional information, may be a useful tool for surveying genome-wide selective sweeps and providing insights in to the source of selection.

Avaliação de métodos de estimativa da radiação solar global e da evapotranspiração de referência para o estado de Mato Grosso

Pós-graduação em Agronomia (Irrigação e Drenagem) - FCA

Plecoptera (Insecta) imaturos da Amazônia brasileira

Este estudo apresenta pela primeira vez, uma classificação dos imaturos de Plecoptera da Amazônia brasileira baseada em exemplares coletados durante o desenvolvimento da tese e outros existentes em coleções que foram emprestados para o estudo (INPA, MZUSP, IEPA, MPEG). A classificação é baseada em caracteres morfológicos externos, tanto aqueles já utilizados por outros autores como outros acrescentados no presente estudo. Coletas recentes foram feitas nas seguintes localidades (Microbacias do rio Apeú e Peixe-Boi, Serra dos Martírios- Andorinhas, reserva Nacional de Caxiuanã, Flona do Amapá, Serra do Tepequém). As coletas de campo foram feitas com rede entomológica aquática com 0,4cm de malha, peneira de aço com 0,7cm de malha e rede de arrasto com 0,3cm de malha. Após as coletas as ninfas foram triadas em bandejas de plástico e os exemplares em avançado estádio de desenvolvimento, foram acondicionados em caixa de isopor pequena e, em seguida transportados para criação. Ninfas foram criadas até adultos para se obter a precisa relação entre estes. Descrevem-se as técnicas de criação como novos métodos em copos plásticos feitas no próprio igarapé onde foram coletadas e em tanque de fibrocimento no Campus de Pesquisa do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Parâmetros físico-químicos da água foram mensurados nos locais de coleta como: temperatura, pH, oxigênio dissolvido e condutividade elétrica, além da caracterização ambiental quanto ao tipo de fundo, dossel, mata adjacente. O material estudado contém: ninfas de diversos instares que não foram associadas aos adultos; ninfas e exúvias que foram criadas e associadas aos adultos; adultos obtidos por coletas e através de criação de ninfas. Os imaturos foram descritos utilizando-se a terminologia de Hynes (1941), Haper & Stewart (1984), Froehlich (1984), Hamada & Couceiro (2003) e Olifiers et al., (2005). Foram descritas seis ninfas das espécies A. marlieri, A. minuta, A. manauensis, M. delicata, M. pulchra e E, froehlichi; ninfas de quatorze morfoespécies, sendo onze do gênero Anacroneuria: A. sp. n. 1, A. sp. n. 2, A. sp.JMFR1, A. sp.JMFR2, A. sp.JMFR3, A. sp.JMFR4, A. sp.JMFR5, A. sp.JMFR6, A. sp.JMFR7, A. sp.JMFR8, A. sp.JMFR9, A. sp.JMFR10, A. sp.JMFR11; dois do gênero Macrogynoplax: M. sp.JMFR1, M. sp.JMFR2 e uma do gênero Enderleina: E. sp.JMFR1. As morfoespécies certamente são espécies novas que serão descritas oportunamente após a associação com os adultos. Apresenta-se, pela primeira vez, uma chave de classificação para as espécies e morfoespécies de imaturos da Amazônia brasileira.

Boosted objects and jet substructure at the LHC. Report of BOOST2012, held at IFIC Valencia, 23rd-27th of July 2012

This report of the BOOST2012 workshop presents the results of four working groups that studied key aspects of jet substructure. We discuss the potential of first-principle QCD calculations to yield a precise description of the substructure of jets and study the accuracy of state-of-the-art Monte Carlo tools. Limitations of the experiments' ability to resolve substructure are evaluated, with a focus on the impact of additional (pile-up) proton proton collisions on jet substructure performance in future LHC operating scenarios. A final section summarizes the lessons learnt from jet substructure analyses in searches for new physics in the production of boosted top quarks.

O retorno: identidades à deriva no romance português contemporâneo

This paper concentrates on the analysis of how the typical voices of History are manifested, which is achieved by the aesthetics of the contemporary Portuguese narrative, as it aims at the same time the reflexion and the reformulation of the Lusitanian cultural imaginary in the course of O retorno, a novel by Dulce Maria Cardoso. The hypothesis that arises is that the trajectory of Rui’s individual experience, as wells as the other’s characters “retornados” looking for identity, is parallel to the proposed revision of the Portuguese nation collective cultural imaginary in the decolonization context, after the 25th April Revolution. It is its objective to investigate how the historical processes concerned to the concepts of exile and uprooting, displacement and belonging (BAUMAN, 2005) are fictionalized in the novel, seen as motes for Rui’s pursuit for identity and for the revision of the Portuguese Destiny theme

Evidence of Bos javanicus x Bos indicus hybridization and major QTLs for birth weight in Indonesian Peranakan Ongole cattle

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Stability analysis of Crank-Nicolson and Euler schemes for time-dependent diffusion equations

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Thiophenecarboxamide derivatives activated by EthA kill mycobacterium tuberculosis by inhibiting the CTP synthetase PyrG

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Classificação de potenciais unidades climáticas em Presidente Prudente-SP

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Interview with Anthony DiGiorgio

In his interview with Daniel Lee, Anthony DiGiorgio recollects the impact Hurricane Hugo had on Winthrop University and the Rock Hill Community. DiGiorgio discusses weather reports leading up to the hurricane, his personal experience with the storm, and the aftermath of Hugo on campus. DiGiorgio shares the ways in which Winthrop University assisted the community and its faculty and staff. This interview was conducted for inclusion into the Louise Pettus Archives and Special Collections Oral History Program.

Miller Family Papers - Accession 204 - M90 (115-116)

The Miller Family Papers consist of notes on the Miller, Cathcart, and Roddey families, genealogical data on the Lindsay, Stewart, and McCaughrin families, and an American Civil War reminiscence of William Joseph Miller entitled, “My Experience as a Soldier in the Confederate Army. Written at the Request of Barnette, My Only Living Daughter.” Miller served in the 12th Regiment, South Carolina Volunteers of the Confederate Army.

Thomas Smithwick Gettys Papers - Accession 54

Thomas Smithwick Gettys (1912-2003) was a lawyer and U.S. Representative for the Fifth Congressional District of South Carolina. The Thomas Smithwick Gettys Papers consist of reports, resolutions, correspondence, news releases, government publications, and newspaper clippings, relating to Getty’s efforts to enlarge and develop the Cowpens Battlefield Site of Cherokee County, South Carolina. Correspondents include Ernest Hollings, Donald Russell, John P. Saylor, W.S. Stuckey, Jr., Roy A. Taylor, Mark W. Clark, Wayne Aspinall, and Stewart Udall.