The effects of food and parasitism on reproductive performance of a wild rodent.

Food and parasitism can have complex effects on small mammal reproduction. In this study, we tested the effects of sex, food, and parasitism on reproductive performance of the Taiwan field mouse (). In a field experiment, we increased food availability for a portion of the mice in the population by providing sorghum seeds to a set of food stations.

Corrigendum: Developing informative microsatellite markers for non-model species using reference mapping against a model species' genome.

This corrects the article DOI: 10.1038/srep23087.

Developing informative microsatellite markers for non-model species using reference mapping against a model species' genome.

Microsatellites have a wide range of applications from behavioral biology, evolution, to agriculture-based breeding programs. The recent progress in the next-generation sequencing technologies and the rapidly increasing number of published genomes may greatly enhance the current applications of microsatellites by turning them from anonymous to informative markers. Here we developed an approach to anchor microsatellite markers of any target species in a genome of a related model species, through which the genomic locations of the markers, along with any functional genes potentially linked to them, can be revealed.