Spontaneous changes in Drosophila melanogaster transposable elements and their effects on fitness.

abstract：:Genetic variation that is expressed only under specific environmental conditions can contribute to additional adverse effects of inbreeding if environmental conditions change. We present a proteomic characterization of a conditional lethal found in an inbred line of Drosophila melanogaster. The lethal effect is appare...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Pedersen KS,Codrea MC,Vermeulen CJ,Loeschcke V,Bendixen E

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural populations of the arctic fox (Alopex lagopus, Canidae, Carnivora) differ drastically in their reproductive strategy. Coastal foxes, which depend on stable food resources, produce litters of moderate size. Inland foxes feed on small rodents, whose populations are characterized by cycling fluctuation. In the ye...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Axenovich TI,Zorkoltseva IV,Akberdin IR,Beketov SV,Kashtanov SN,Zakharov IA,Borodin PM

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many lepidopteran insects exhibit body colour variations, where the high phenotypic diversity observed in the wings and bodies of adults provides opportunities for studying adaptive morphological evolution. In the silkworm Bombyx mori, two genes responsible for moth colour mutation, Bm and Ws, have been mapped to 0.0 ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Ito K,Katsuma S,Kuwazaki S,Jouraku A,Fujimoto T,Sahara K,Yasukochi Y,Yamamoto K,Tabunoki H,Yokoyama T,Kadono-Okuda K,Shimada T

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Island colonisation by animal populations is often associated with dramatic shifts in body size. However, little is known about the rates at which these evolutionary shifts occur, under what precise selective pressures and the putative role played by adaptive plasticity on driving such changes. Isolation time played a...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Aubret F

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two hundred and thirty-six mitochondrial DNA nucleotide sequences were used in combination with polymorphism at four nuclear microsatellite loci to assess the amount and distribution of genetic variation within and between African savannah elephants. They were sampled from 11 localities in eastern, western and souther...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Nyakaana S,Arctander P,Siegismund HR

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated intraspecific and interspecific patterns of paternity in Tribolium castaneum, the flour beetle, by mating females either to pairs of conspecific males or to one conspecific and one heterospecific male of the closely related species, T. freemani. Females of both species store sperm in the spermatheca af...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Robinson T,Johnson NA,Wade MJ

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a new model for mating system analysis, which attempts to distinguish among alternative modes of self-oriented mating within populations. This model jointly estimates the rates of outcrossing, selfing, automixis and apomixis, through the use of information in the family structure given by dominant ge...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Thompson SL,Ritland K

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative trait locus (QTL) analysis detects regions of a genome that are linked to a complex trait. Once a QTL is detected, the region is narrowed by positional cloning in the hope of determining the underlying candidate gene-methods used include creating congenic strains, comparative genomics and gene expression ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Cox A,Sheehan SM,Klöting I,Paigen B,Korstanje R

更新日期：2010-11-01 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：:As important as the events that influence selection for specific chromosome types in the derivation of novel karyotypes, are the events that initiate the changes in chromosome number and structure between species, and likewise polymorphisms, variants and disease states within species. Although once thought of as trans...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Brown JD,Mitchell SE,O'Neill RJ

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic data have been widely used to reconstruct the demographic history of populations, including the estimation of migration rates, divergence times and relative admixture contribution from different populations. Recently, increasing interest has been given to the ability of genetic data to distinguish alternative ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Sousa VC,Beaumont MA,Fernandes P,Coelho MM,Chikhi L

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To address the multiple challenges to food security posed by global climate change, population growth and rising incomes, plant breeders are developing new crop varieties that can enhance both agricultural productivity and environmental sustainability. Current breeding practices, however, are unable to keep pace with ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Spindel JE,Begum H,Akdemir D,Collard B,Redoña E,Jannink JL,McCouch S

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In wide-ranging taxa with historically dynamic ranges, past allopatric isolation and range expansion can both influence the current structure of genetic diversity. Considering alternate historical scenarios involving expansion from either a single refugium or from multiple refugia can be useful in differentiating the ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Reid BN,Kass JM,Wollney S,Jensen EL,Russello MA,Viola EM,Pantophlet J,Iverson JB,Peery MZ,Raxworthy CJ,Naro-Maciel E

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The teleost fish, medaka (Oryzias latipes), has an XX/XY sex-determining mechanism. A Y-linked DM domain gene, DMY, has been isolated by positional cloning as the sex-determining gene in this species. Previously, we conducted a field survey of genotypic sex and found that approximately 1% of wild medaka are sex-revers...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Shinomiya A,Otake H,Hamaguchi S,Sakaizumi M

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Local patterns of genetic variation were analysed in the land snail Helix aspersa for 32 populations sampled within a patchy agricultural landscape: the polders of the Bay of Mont-Saint-Michel (France). This investigation examined the allele frequencies at four enzymatic markers and five microsatellite loci through th...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Arnaud JF,Madec L,Guiller A,Deunff J

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The coefficient of variation of estimates of three genetic distances (standard genetic distance of Nei, chord distance, FST) was examined with computer simulation to determine if large samples (per population) are necessary to precisely estimate genetic distances at loci with high levels of polymorphism. These simulat...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Kalinowski ST

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wolbachia are symbiotic bacteria that induce a diversity of phenotypes on their numerous invertebrate host species. In the wasp Asobara tabida (Braconidae), each individual harbours three Wolbachia strains: wAtab3, which is required for host oogenesis, and wAtab1 and wAtab2, that do not have this function but induce c...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Dedeine F,Boulétreau M,Vavre F

更新日期：2005-11-01 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：:The European bison (Bison bonasus) has recovered successfully after a severe bottleneck about 90 years ago but has been left with low genetic variability that may substantially hinder parentage and identity analysis. According to pedigree analysis, over 80% of the genes in the contemporary population descend from just...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Tokarska M,Marshall T,Kowalczyk R,Wójcik JM,Pertoldi C,Kristensen TN,Loeschcke V,Gregersen VR,Bendixen C

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Allozyme analysis on 20 putative enzyme-coding loci and RAPD analysis on 154 markers, amplified by eight decamer random primers, were used to assess the genetic variation of striped red mullet, Mullus surmuletus L., collected from six locations in the Mediterranean Sea. Both methods were able to detect a high degree o...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Mamuris Z,Stamatis C,Triantaphyllidis C

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complete D-loop sequences of 20 Mus from three localities in Turkey and seven in Iran were characterized. These countries are thought to be close to the place of origin of the subspecies Mus musculus domesticus. Five new M. m. domesticus haplotypes were added to the nine already known for the region. Four of these 14 ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Gündüz I,Tez C,Malikov V,Vaziri A,Polyakov AV,Searle JB

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive species are believed to spread through a process of stratified dispersal consisting of short-distance diffusive spread around established foci and human mediated long-distance jumps. Brazilian peppertree (Schinus terebinthifolius), native to South America, was introduced twice as an ornamental plant into Flor...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Williams DA,Muchugu E,Overholt WA,Cuda JP

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of selection on patterns of genetic structure within and between populations may be studied by contrasting observed patterns at the genes targeted by selection with those of unlinked neutral marker loci. Local directional selection on target genes will produce stronger population genetic structure than at n...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Leducq JB,Llaurens V,Castric V,Saumitou-Laprade P,Hardy OJ,Vekemans X

更新日期：2011-02-01 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：: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：:Blue mussels of the genus Mytilus have an unusual mode of mitochondrial DNA inheritance termed doubly uniparental inheritance (DUI). Females are homoplasmic for the F mitotype which is inherited maternally, whereas males are heteroplasmic for this and the paternally inherited M mitotype. In areas where species distrib...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Wood AR,Turner G,Skibinski DO,Beaumont AR

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:"Fisherian" models of sexual selection by female choice assume that females prefer male characters which are initially advantageous or neutral; character and preference then spread through the population. Once female preference has evolved to a higher frequency, the male character can become more extreme and disadvant...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Tomlinson IP

更新日期：1988-04-01 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：:Six populations of Trimerotropis pallidipennis located along an altitudinal gradient in the Antinaco-Los Colorados valley (La Rioja, Argentina), were cytologically analysed. The male karyotype consists of 23 chromosomes (22 + XO) with three long pairs submetacentric, the X-chromosome metacentric and the remaining ones...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Confalonieri VA,Colombo PC

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colour polymorphisms have evolutionary significance for the generation and maintenance of species diversity. Demonstrating heritability of polymorphic traits can be challenging for wild populations of long-lived species because accurate information is required on trait expression and familial relationships. The Austra...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Dobson AE,Schmidt DJ,Hughes JM

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00