The relationship between the effects of UV light and thermal shock on gametes and the viability of early developmental stages in a marine teleost fish, the sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax L.).

abstract：:A population resulting from the diallel cross of a set of elite inbred lines was selected under two strategies: (i) inbred strategy (IS) under brother-sister mating; and (ii) random strategy (RIS) under random mating. The final lines in both cases were completely inbred. RIS populations clearly responded better than I...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Silvela L,de la Peña ID,Gomez-Ruano R

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trichogramma wasps can be rendered asexual by infection with the maternally inherited symbiont Wolbachia. Previous studies indicate the Wolbachia strains infecting Trichogramma wasps are host-specific, inferred by failed horizontal transfer of Wolbachia to novel Trichogramma hosts. Additionally, Trichogramma can becom...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Lindsey ARI,Stouthamer R

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic effects of habitat fragmentation may be undetectable because they are generally a recent event in evolutionary time or because of confounding effects such as historical bottlenecks and historical changes in species' distribution. To assess the effects of demographic history on the genetic diversity and populat...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Collevatti RG,Telles MP,Nabout JC,Chaves LJ,Soares TN

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comprehensive long-term studies of isolated populations provide valuable comparative data that may be used to evaluate different methods for quantifying the relationship between genetic diversity and fitness. Here, we report on data collected from large and well-characterized cohorts of the two numerically dominant sp...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Markert JA,Grant PR,Grant BR,Keller LF,Coombs JL,Petren K

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pinewood nematode (Bursaphelenchus xylophilus) is an invasive species that causes a destructive forest disease-pine wilt disease. This disease has been prevalent in some countries in Asia since the 1970s. An amplified fragment length polymorphism survey was used to compare the genetic variation of native and invasive ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Cheng XY,Cheng FX,Xu RM,Xie BY

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of organisms on 'terrestrial islands' can improve our understanding of two unresolved issues in evolutionary genetics: the likely long-term effects of habitat fragmentation and the genetic underpinnings of continental species radiations in island-like terrestrial habitats. We have addressed both issues for fou...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Barbará T,Lexer C,Martinelli G,Mayo S,Fay MF,Heuertz M

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Latitudinal variation in thorax and wing size traits was studied in wild-caught flies of the cactophilic Drosophila species, D. aldrichi and D. buzzatii, and their laboratory-reared progeny. The flies originated from five populations in Queensland, Australia, spanning an 800-km transect. The laboratory flies were rear...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Loeschcke V,Bundgaard J,Barker JS

更新日期：2000-11-01 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：:The field of ecological genomics seeks to understand the genetic mechanisms underlying responses of organisms to their natural environments. This is being achieved through the application of functional genomic approaches to identify and characterize genes with ecological and evolutionary relevance. By its very nature,...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Ungerer MC,Johnson LC,Herman MA

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differences in behaviour between individuals in populations living in different environments may result from evolution proceeding differently in each population. The parasitoid wasp Cotesia glomerata (L.) (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) parasitizes early instar larvae of butterflies in the family Pieridae. In the study area...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Nouhuys SV,Via S

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effective population size over a generation (Ne) or over a reproductive cycle (Nb) and the adult census size (Nc) are important parameters in both conservation and evolutionary biology. Ne provides information regarding the rate of loss of genetic diversity and can be tracked back in time to infer demographic history ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Ferchaud AL,Perrier C,April J,Hernandez C,Dionne M,Bernatchez L

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic control of self-incompatibility (SI) was studied in the Mediterranean short-lived perennial species Anagallis monelli (Primulaceae: Myrsinaceae). Arrays of siblings, including families derived from reciprocal crosses, were cross-pollinated in full diallels, and compatibility groups were assesssed from a ce...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Talavera S,Gibbs PE,Fernández-Piedra MP,Ortiz-Herrera MA

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A long-standing goal of evolutionary biology is to understand the factors that drive population divergence, local adaptation and speciation. In particular, the effect of selection against dispersers on gene flow and local adaptation has attracted interest, although empirical data on phenotypic characters of dispersers...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Lin J,Quinn TP,Hilborn R,Hauser L

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The central aim of evolutionary biology is to understand patterns of genetic variation between species and within populations. To quantify the genetic variation underlying intraspecific differences, estimating quantitative genetic parameters of traits is essential. In Pterygota, wing morphology is an important trait a...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Xia S,Pannebakker BA,Groenen MAM,Zwaan BJ,Bijma P

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advances in the use of molecular markers to elucidate the inheritance of quantitative traits enable the integration of genetic information on physiological traits into crop growth models. The objective of this study was to assess the ability of a crop growth model with QTL-based estimates of physiological input parame...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Yin X,Chasalow SD,Dourleijn CJ,Stam P,Kropff MJ

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hybrids are broadly used in plant breeding and accurate estimation of variance components is crucial for optimizing genetic gain. Genome-wide information may be used to explore models designed to assess the extent of additive and non-additive variance and test their prediction accuracy for the genomic selection. Ten l...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Bouvet JM,Makouanzi G,Cros D,Vigneron P

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Matrilineal phylogenetic divergence among Atlantic salmon stocks of the Bay of Fundy in south eastern Canada is investigated. Sequence variation in two regions of the mitochondrial ND1 gene, encompassing 710 base pairs, is described for 168 salmon from 11 rivers. Mean overall haplotype and nucleotide diversity (h and ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Verspoor E,O'Sullivan M,Arnold AL,Knox D,Amiro PG

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An important contributor to the differences between individuals derives from their plasticity. Such plasticity is widespread in organisms from the simple to the most complex. Adaptability plasticity enables the organism to cope with a novel challenge not previously encountered by its ancestors. Conditional plasticity ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Bateson P

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The parasitoid Cotesia glomerata usually produces female-biased sex ratios in the field, which are presumably caused by inbreeding and local mate competition (LMC); yet, sibling mating increases the production of males, leading to the male-biased sex ratio of broods in the laboratory. Previous studies have suggested t...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Zhou Y,Gu H,Dorn S

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) was used to localize two transgenes (gus and bar), carried on plasmids pACT-1F and pUBA, respectively, on mitotic metaphase squashes of T1 plants of the cultivated hexaploid oat Avena sativa L. cotransformed by microprojectile bombardment of embryogenic callus. Among the eight...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Leggett JM,Perret SJ,Harper J,Morris P

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How do morphological differences between species evolve at the genetic level? This study investigates the genetic basis of recent divergence in male wing size between species of the model parasitoid wasp Nasonia. The forewings of flightless Nasonia vitripennis males are 2.3 times smaller than males of their flighted s...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Loehlin DW,Enders LS,Werren JH

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the local and regional patterns of species distributions has been a major goal of ecological and evolutionary research. The notion that these patterns can be understood through simple quantitative rules is attractive, but while numerous scaling laws exist (e.g., metabolic, fractals), we are aware of no s...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Bangert RK,Lonsdorf EV,Wimp GM,Shuster SM,Fischer D,Schweitzer JA,Allan GJ,Bailey JK,Whitham TG

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:WOLBACHIA are maternally inherited bacteria, which are very common in arthropods and nematodes. Wolbachia infection may affect host reproduction through feminisation, parthenogenesis, male-killing, cytoplasmic incompatibility and increased fecundity. Previous studies showing discrepancies between the phylogenies of Wo...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Reuter M,Pedersen JS,Keller L

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How does genetic diversity within populations of plants develop during primary succession on alpine glacier forelands? Theory predicts that pioneer populations are characterized by low genetic diversity due to founder effects and that genetic diversity increases within populations as they mature and recurrent gene flo...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Raffl C,Holderegger R,Parson W,Erschbamer B

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied in Drosophila melanogaster the effects of allozyme variation at the alpha Gpdh and Adh loci on the following fitness components: female fecundity, egg hatchability, egg-to-adult survival under near-optimal and competitive conditions, rate of development under near-optimal and competitive conditions, an...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Izquierdo JI,Rubio J

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fixation of major chromosomal rearrangements with a heterozygote disadvantage is modelled as a simple example of Wright's shifting balance process of evolution in a strongly subdivided population. Chromosomal mutations with an inferior heterozygote become fixed in a local population (or deme) by random genetic dri...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Lande R

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study characterized the genetic diversity of four populations of Ilex paraguariensis, a plant species native to South America, using random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) markers. A total of 341 different RAPD bands were generated by the 15 primers analysed. High genetic variability was detected within each pop...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Gauer L,Cavalli-Molina S

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seed dormancy is a key adaptive trait under polygenic control in many plants. We introduced the chromosomal regions containing the dormancy QTLs qSD1, qSD7-1, and qSD12 from an accession of weedy rice into a nondormant genetic background to examine component genetic effects and their interactions with time of afterrip...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Gu XY,Kianian SF,Foley ME

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RAPD-PCR polymorphisms at 57 presumptive loci were used to examine the breeding structure of the mosquito Aedes aegypti in Puerto Rico. Mosquitoes were sampled from 16 locations in six cities and samples were located in a nested spatial design to examine local patterns of gene flow. Allele frequencies were estimated a...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Apostol BL,Black WC 4th,Reiter P,Miller BR

更新日期：1996-04-01 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