Genetic diversity structure

Damage any reduction in the intended use or value of a biological or physical resource. For example, economic production, ecological structure or function, aesthetic value, or biological or genetic diversity that may be altered by a pollutant. 

Concurrent with the progress in our1 understanding of molecular diversity, structure, and function of K+ channels, and their role in genetically linked and acquired... 

Microbial community structures and genetic diversity of the microbial community present in each of the anoxic and aerobic zones, along with COD and nitrogen mass balances [163] 5- CTQ 3 o S3 s o S3... 

Beebe S, Skroch PW, Tohme J, Duque MC, Pedraza F, Nienhuis J (2000) Structure of genetic diversity among common bean landraces of Middle American origin based on correspondence analysis of RAPD. Crop Sci 40 264-273... 

Lasry L, Campos T, Morais SA, Colombo CA, Chioratto AF, Fernandes E, Lima LR, Pereira A (2007) Structure of genetic diversity among common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) varieties of Mesoamerican and Andean origins using new developed microsatellite markers. Genet Resour Crop Evol 54 1747-1762... 

The links between microbial diversity and soil functioning are unknown because it is difficult to measure microbial diversity. In addition, we generally measure soil functions by determining the rates of microbial processes, without knowing the microbial species effectively involved in the measured process (Nannipieri et al. 2003). The central problem of the link between microbial diversity and soil function is to understand the relations between genetic diversity and community structure and between community structure and function. 

Williams, S.L. and DiFiori, R.E., Genetic diversity and structure in Pelvetia fastigiata (Phaeophyta, Fucales) does a small effective neighborhood size explain fine-scale genetic structure , Mar. Biol., 126, 371, 1986. 

Single-stranded nucleic acids often fold back on themselves to form well-defined structures. Early in evolutionary history, nucleic acids, particularly RNA, may have adopted complex and diverse structures both to store genetic information and to catalyze its transmission (Section 2.2.2). Such structures are also important in all modem organisms in entities such as the ribosome, a large complex of RNAs and proteins on which proteins are synthesized. 

Dramatic life history alterations that result from toxicant exposure could lead to population extinction through a variety of mechanisms. For example, if one life stage of an organism is more sensitive to toxicant exposure than others, reduced survival and fecundity may bring about population bottlenecks, severe reductions in population size, or alterations in age class structure. Bottlenecks may be accompanied by a decrease in genetic diversity, inbreeding depression, further diminution of fitness, and eventually population extinction. Alternative hypotheses such as decreases in population density also may explain how toxicant exposure could lead to severe population declines or extinction. 

Not only are antibodies and T-cell receptors a result of genetic diversity and recombination, but antibodies have highly diverse structures as well. Antibodies require many different structural solutions for binding many... 

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