@article {24, title = {Characterization of the North American beaver (Castor canadensis) papillomavirus genome.}, journal = {Vet Microbiol}, volume = {168}, year = {2014}, month = {2014 Jan 10}, pages = {214-20}, abstract = {

The papillomaviruses comprise a large group of viruses that cause proliferations of the stratified squamous epithelium of skin and mucosa in a variety of animals. An earlier report identified a novel papillomavirus of the North American beaver, Castor canadensis (CcanPV1) that was associated with cutaneous exophytic lesions. In the current study, we determined the sequence of the complete 7435 basepair genome of CcanPV1. The genome contains an Upstream Regulatory Region located between the end of L1 and the start of E6, and seven canonical papillomavirus open reading frames encoding five early (E6, E7, E1, E2, and E4) and two late (L2 and L1) proteins. No E5 open reading frame was detected. Phylogenetic analysis of the CcanPV1 genome places the virus between the genera Kappapapillomavirus and Mupapillomavirus. Analyses of the papillomavirus genomes detected in different species of the order Rodentia indicate these viruses do not form a monophyletic clade.

}, keywords = {Animals, Genome, Viral, Molecular Sequence Data, Open Reading Frames, Papillomaviridae, Papillomavirus Infections, Phylogeny, Rodentia, United States}, issn = {1873-2542}, doi = {10.1016/j.vetmic.2013.11.011}, author = {Rogovskyy, Artem S and Chen, Zigui and Burk, Robert D and Bankhead, Troy} } @article {26, title = {Development of nine new microsatellite loci for the American beaver, Castor canadensis (Rodentia: Castoridae), and cross-species amplification in the European beaver, Castor fiber.}, journal = {Mol Ecol Resour}, volume = {9}, year = {2009}, month = {2009 Mar}, pages = {551-4}, abstract = {

We developed nine new nuclear dinucleotide microsatellite loci for Castor canadensis. All loci were polymorphic, except for one. The number of alleles ranged from two to four and from five to 12 in populations from Arizona and Wisconsin, respectively. Average heterozygosity ranged from 0.13 to 0.86 per locus. Since cross-species amplification in Castor fiber was successful only in four loci, we tested also nine recently published C. canadensis loci in the Eurasian species. Eight of the published loci amplified; however, three were monomorphic. The number of alleles was lower in C. fiber than in C. canadensis at all loci tested.

}, issn = {1755-098X}, doi = {10.1111/j.1755-0998.2008.02364.x}, author = {Pelz-Serrano, Karla and Munguia-Vega, Adrian and Piaggio, Antoinette J and Neubaum, Melissa and Munclinger, Pavel and P{\'a}rtl, Adam and VAN Riper Iii, Charles and Culver, Melanie} } @article {27, title = {Isolation and characterization of microsatellite loci in the beaver (Castor canadensis).}, journal = {Mol Ecol Resour}, volume = {8}, year = {2008}, month = {2008 May}, pages = {616-8}, abstract = {

We have isolated and characterized 10 microsatellite loci in the beaver (Castor canadensis). Sixty individuals from southern and central Illinois were screened at each locus. All loci exhibited moderate levels of polymorphism, ranging from five to 13 alleles per locus with average heterozygosity ranging from 0.317 to 0.867. Locus Cca5 deviated significantly from HWE (P~<~0.001). The locus pair Cca4/Cca5 was shown to be in linkage disequilibrium in southern Illinois, but not in the central Illinois population. The remaining eight loci will be useful in investigations of mating and kinship patterns in beaver populations in Illinois.

}, issn = {1755-098X}, doi = {10.1111/j.1471-8286.2007.02016.x}, author = {Crawford, J and Liu, Z and Nelson, T and Nielsen, C and Bloomquist, C} }