Selection under negative linkage disequilibrium. Random mating versus inbreeding.

abstract：:The simple regression method of mapping quantitative trait loci (QTL) is further investigated in comparison with the mixture model maximum likelihood method under high heritabilities, dominant and missing markers. No significant difference between the two methods is detected in terms of errors of parameter estimation ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Xu S

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examine seven geographically separate subpopulations of Heliconius charithonia, a butterfly with well-documented home range behaviour, in Miami-Dade County, Florida, for genetic differentiation using cellulose acetate electrophoresis. These subpopulations exhibit little genetic variation (percent polymorphic loci =...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Kronforst MR,Fleming TH

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arctic-alpine plants have enormous ranges in the Northern Hemisphere. Phylogeographic studies have provided insights into their glacial survival as well as their postglacial colonization history. However, our understanding of the population dynamics of disjunct alpine populations in temperate regions remains limited. ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Ikeda H,Sakaguchi S,Yakubov V,Barkalov V,Setoguchi H

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stable hybrid zones in which ecologically divergent taxa give rise to a range of recombinants are natural laboratories in which the genetic basis of adaptation and reproductive isolation can be unraveled. One such hybrid zone is formed by the fire-bellied toads Bombina bombina and B. variegata (Anura: Discoglossidae)....

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Nürnberger B,Hofman S,Förg-Brey B,Praetzel G,Maclean A,Szymura JM,Abbott CM,Barton NH

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of Haldane's rule suggests that sex chromosomes commonly have a key role in reproductive barriers and speciation. However, the majority of research on Haldane's rule has been conducted in species with conventional sex determination systems (XY and ZW) and exceptions to the rule have been understudied. H...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Moran PA,Ritchie MG,Bailey NW

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A high-resolution transcript linkage map of barley was created using a single doubled haploid (DH) mapping population, only 3'-end expressed sequence tags (ESTs) and only PCR-based assays. Cultivar 'Haruna Nijo' and an ancestral wild-form accession 'H602' were used as EST donors and crossing parents of the mapping pop...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Sato K,Nankaku N,Takeda K

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent developments in the analysis of density dependent competition in Drosophila melanogaster have identified two distinct parameters, namely the competitive pressure or aggression exerted by a genotype and the sensitivity or response of a genotype to such aggression. Assuming that response is more related to the ef...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： de Miranda JR,Eggleston P

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic analyses of population structure can be placed in explicit environmental contexts if appropriate environmental data are available. Here, we use high-coverage and high-resolution oceanographic and genetic sequence data to assess population structure patterns and their potential environmental influences for hump...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Mendez M,Subramaniam A,Collins T,Minton G,Baldwin R,Berggren P,Särnblad A,Amir OA,Peddemors VM,Karczmarski L,Guissamulo A,Rosenbaum HC

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the amount and nature of variation revealed by cDNA-based sequence-tagged-site (STS) markers in Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) using 39 pairs of heterologous primers that were based upon arbitrary genes in black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) B.S.P.). A panel of 22 diverse Norway spruce genotypes w...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Perry DJ,Isabel N,Bousquet J

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drosophila mauritiana larvae are tolerant to ethanol as a supplementary nutritional resource at low concentrations. Higher levels of ethanol (5 per cent) in the food adversely affect larval behaviour causing reduced rates of locomotion and feeding which are associated with low larva-to-adult survival. Two codominant a...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Muhammad-Ali AZ,Burnet B

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heritabilities of nectar production in the wild species Echium vulgare were estimated as realised heritability under controlled and field conditions. The nectar production of offspring from high- and low-nectar-producing parents was significantly different in both controlled and field conditions, indicating that necta...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Leiss KA,Vrieling K,Klinkhamer PG

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hybridization between crops and their weedy or wild relatives is an area of concern because the widespread use of genetically engineered crops may allow novel, beneficial transgenes to enter nearby populations. We compared fitness components of wild Cucurbita pepo from Arkansas, USA, with wild-crop hybrids derived fro...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Spencer LJ,Snow AA

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our understanding of the distribution of worldwide human genomic diversity has greatly increased over recent years thanks to the availability of large data sets derived from short tandem repeats (STRs), insertion deletion polymorphisms (indels) and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). A concern, however, is that th...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Romero IG,Manica A,Goudet J,Handley LL,Balloux F

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many traits including shapes and colors of flowers, fruits and seeds in plants, as well as coat colors and some behavioral properties in animals, are recorded in discrete categories. If categories are ordered, genetic analyses of the categorical traits are often performed using the threshold model, which considers a l...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Hayashi T,Awata T

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In early 1992, the European bumblebee, Bombus terrestris, was first seen in Tasmania and currently has spread to most of the island. Here, we report on the genetic structure, using micro-satellites, of the invading population from samples collected in the years 1998-2000, a few years after the first sighting of the sp...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Schmid-Hempel P,Schmid-Hempel R,Brunner PC,Seeman OD,Allen GR

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inbreeding (mating between relatives) can dramatically reduce the fitness of offspring by causing parts of the genome to be identical by descent. Thus, measuring individual inbreeding is crucial for ecology, evolution and conservation biology. We used computer simulations to test whether the realized proportion of the...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Kardos M,Luikart G,Allendorf FW

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ubiquity of satellite DNA (satDNA) sequences has raised much controversy over the abundance of divergent monomer variants and the long-time nucleotide sequence stability observed for many satDNA families. In this work, we describe the satDNA BIV160, characterized in nine species of the three main bivalve clades (P...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Plohl M,Petrović V,Luchetti A,Ricci A,Satović E,Passamonti M,Mantovani B

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A temporal analysis of a hybrid zone between chromosomal races of Mus musculus domesticus was performed to evaluate its dynamics over a 20-year period. The transect chosen was one previously analysed by Spirito et al. (1980) across the hycbrid zone between the chromosomal race CD 2n=22 (central Italy) and the surround...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Castiglia R,Capanna E

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-eight spontaneous alterations modifying the hybridization banding pattern of six families of transposable elements (297, Foldback, copia, jockey, P and hobo) have been fixed in a set of mutation-accumulation lines of Drosophila melanogaster. Their effect on fitness has been studied by competition with the origi...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Albornoz J,Domínguez A

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Galton's ancestral law states that the two parent contribute between them on average one-half of the total heritage of the offspring, the four grandparents one-quarter, and so on. He interpreted this law both as a representation of the separate contributions of each ancestor to the heritage of the offspring and as a m...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Bulmer M

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cultural transmission may depend on the non-genetic transfer of information from parent to offspring. The consequences of such cultural transmission for continuous variation are investigated theoretically for randomly mating populations. Cultural inheritance may act on genetical and environmental differences between i...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Eaves L

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chicken growth traits are economically important, but the relevant genetic mechanisms have not yet been elucidated. Herein, we performed a genome-wide association study to identify the variants associated with growth traits. In total, 860 chickens from a Gushi-Anka F2 resource population were phenotyped for 68 growth ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Zhang Y,Wang Y,Li Y,Wu J,Wang X,Bian C,Tian Y,Sun G,Han R,Liu X,Jiang R,Wang Y,Li G,Li W,Hu X,Kang X

更新日期：2020-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments were carried out to correlate the cytological localization of DNA polymerase alpha with the presence of its specific mRNA in human lymphocytes studied at different times after phytohaemagglutinin stimulation. Our data indicated that in resting cells it is not possible to detect DNA polymerase alpha protein...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Ennas MG,Suzuki H,Menegazzi M,Carcereri A,Hanaoka F,Gremo F,Nieddu M,Mezzanotte R

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The course of adaptation to heterogeneous environments is influenced by the magnitude of genetic variation for ecologically important characters within each environment and the extent of genotype x environment interaction. Using the genetic correlation between the expression of characters in different environments as ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Via S,Conner J

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Habitat fragmentation is a major cause of biodiversity loss, responsible for an alteration of intraspecific patterns of neutral genetic diversity and structure. Although neutral genetic variation can be informative for demographic inferences, it may be a poor predictor of adaptive genetic diversity and thus of the con...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Perrin A,Khimoun A,Faivre B,Ollivier A,de Pracontal N,Théron F,Loubon M,Leblond G,Duron O,Garnier S

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A model involving a specific pairing of homologous double-stranded nucleic acid molecules is applied to some parts of genetic recombination. The most original features of this application of the model relate to the initiation process, a part of which can be described by a highly compact and symmetrical structure. The ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： McGavin S

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Volunteers deriving from unharvested seeds of a crop can lead to persistent feral populations and participate in genetic exchanges across the agro-ecosystem, both between crop varieties and between crops and their wild relatives. A first step to understand the importance of volunteers is to characterize their capacity...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Ostrowski MF,Rousselle Y,Tsitrone A,Santoni S,David J,Reboud X,Muller MH

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We dissected the relationship between genetic differentiation (Q(ST)) for a trait and its underlying genes (G(STq), differentiation for a quantitative locus) in an evolutionary context, with the aim of identifying the conditions in which these two measurements are decoupled. We used two parameters (θ(B) and θ(W)) scal...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Kremer A,Le Corre V

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fisher's model for the evolution of dominance indicates that the accumulation of dominance modifiers will be accelerated by (1) an increased frequency of the mutant heterozygote, (2) increased selection for the phenotype of the normal homozygote. The model has been criticised by Haldane on the grounds that point (1) i...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Manning JT

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haplodiploidy is one of the most widespread mechanisms of sex determination in animals. In many Hymenoptera, including all hitherto investigated social species, diploid individuals, which are heterozygous at the sex locus, develop as females, whereas haploid, hemizygous individuals develop as males (single-locus compl...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Schrempf A,Aron S,Heinze J

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00