Four chromo-domain proteins of Schizosaccharomyces pombe differentially repress transcription at various chromosomal locations.

abstract：:The extent to which epistasis contributes to adaptation, population differentiation, and speciation is a long-standing and important problem in evolutionary genetics. Using recombinant inbred (RI) lines of Arabidopsis thaliana grown under natural field conditions, we have examined the genetic architecture of fitness-c...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Malmberg RL,Held S,Waits A,Mauricio R

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic requirements for spontaneous and transcription-stimulated mitotic recombination were determined using a recombination system that employs heterochromosomal lys2 substrates that can recombine only by crossover or only by gene conversion. The substrates were fused either to a constitutive low-level promoter ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Freedman JA,Jinks-Robertson S

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An elevated mutation rate can provide cells with a source of mutations to adapt to changing environments. We identified a negative epistatic interaction involving naturally occurring variants in the MLH1 and PMS1 mismatch repair (MMR) genes of Saccharomyces cerevisiae We hypothesized that this MMR incompatibility, cre...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Bui DT,Friedrich A,Al-Sweel N,Liti G,Schacherer J,Aquadro CF,Alani E

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The idealized individual in many fungal species is a haploid self-sterile hermaphrodite that may be propagated by asexually produced spores or that may reproduce sexually. In field populations, polymorphism occurs for female-sterile/hermaphrodite status, and female-sterile mutants, which function only as males during ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Leslie JF,Klein KK

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rdgB mutants depend on recombinational repair of double-strand breaks. To assess other consequences of rdgB inactivation in Escherichia coli, we isolated RdgB-dependent mutants. All transposon inserts making cells dependent on RdgB inactivate genes of double-strand break repair, indicating that chromosomal fragmen...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Lukas L,Kuzminov A

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial complex I is the largest multimeric enzyme of the respiratory chain. The lack of a model system with facile genetics has limited the molecular dissection of complex I assembly. Using Chlamydomonas reinhardtii as an experimental system to screen for complex I defects, we isolated, via forward genetics, am...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Barbieri MR,Larosa V,Nouet C,Subrahmanian N,Remacle C,Hamel PP

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We show that major chromosomal rearrangements can occur upon T-DNA transformation of Arabidopsis thaliana. In the ACL4 line, two T-DNA insertion loci were found; one is a tandem T-DNA insert in a head-to-head orientation, and the other is a truncated insert with only the left part of the T-region. The four flanking DN...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Nacry P,Camilleri C,Courtial B,Caboche M,Bouchez D

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our previous work suggests that the Nhp6 HMGB protein stimulates RNA polymerase II transcription via the TATA-binding protein TBP and that Nhp6 functions in the same functional pathway as the Gcn5 histone acetyltransferase. In this report we examine the genetic relationship between Nhp6 and Gcn5 with the Mot1 and Ccr4...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Biswas D,Yu Y,Mitra D,Stillman DJ

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spindle assembly checkpoint-mediated mitotic arrest depends on proteins that signal the presence of one or more unattached kinetochores and prevents the onset of anaphase in the presence of kinetochore or spindle damage. In the presence of either damage, bub2 cells initiate a preanaphase delay but do not maintain ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Krishnan R,Pangilinan F,Lee C,Spencer F

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to characterize two mutator stocks of yeast which were induced and selected on the basis of high spontaneous reversion rates of the suppressible "ochre" nonsense allele lys1-1. In the mutator stock VA-3, a single mutation, designated mut1-1, is responsible for the increase in the reversio...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Gottlieb DJ,von Borstel RC

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prion-like behavior of Sup35p, the eRF3 homolog in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, mediates the activity of the cytoplasmic nonsense suppressor known as [PSI(+)]. Sup35p is divided into three regions of distinct function. The N-terminal and middle (M) regions are required for the induction and propagation of [...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Jensen MA,True HL,Chernoff YO,Lindquist S

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genic variation in natural populations of Drosophila simulans was surveyed using allozymic and two-dimensional electrophoretic techniques. Consistent with some previous reports, allozymic heterozygosity appeared lower than in the sibling species D. melanogaster (0.07 vs. 0.16). No variation was detected by two-dimensi...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Ohnishi S,Leigh Brown AJ,Voelker RA,Langley CH

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in genome structure and gene expression have been documented in both resynthesized and natural allopolyploids that contain two or more divergent genomes. The underlying mechanisms for rapid and stochastic changes in gene expression are unknown. Arabidopsis suecica is a natural allotetraploid derived from the e...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Chen M,Ha M,Lackey E,Wang J,Chen ZJ

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Life-history traits or "fitness components"-such as age and size at maturity, fecundity and fertility, age-specific rates of survival, and life span-are the major phenotypic determinants of Darwinian fitness. Analyzing the evolution and genetics of these phenotypic targets of selection is central to our understanding ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Flatt T

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene duplication is arguably the most significant source of new functional genetic material. A better understanding of the processes that lead to the stable incorporation of gene duplications into the genome is important both because it relates to interspecific differences in genome composition and because it can shed...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Proulx SR

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriophage T4 cytosine-containing DNA is cleaved at a single site by the restriction endonuclease, Bam H1. The site lies within the late region of the T4 genome, close to, or within, gene 8, one of the structural genes of the phage particle baseplate. ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Wilson GG,Neve RL,Edlin GJ,Konigsberg WH

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic and developmental analysis of an X-linked vital locus vnd was undertaken. Embryos hemizygous for the original allele vnd did not hatch and exhibited a disorganized ventral nervous system (VNS). The mutation maps in the region 1B6-7 to 1B9-10, a subregion of an area previously shown to be essential to normal ne...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： White K,DeCelles NL,Enlow TC

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The murine dilute suppressor gene (dsu) suppresses the coat-color phenotype of three pigment mutations, dilute (d), ashen (ash) and leaden (ln), that each produce adendritic melanocytes. Suppression is due to the ability of dsu to partially restore (ash and ln), or almost completely restore (d), normal melanocyte morp...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Moore KJ,Swing DA,Copeland NG,Jenkins NA

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The knotted1 gene was first defined by dominant mutations that affect leaf morphology. The original allele, Kn1-O, results from a 17-kb tandem duplication. Mutator (Mu) insertions near the junction of the two repeats suppress the leaf phenotype to different degrees depending on the position of the insertion. The Mu in...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Mathern J,Hake S

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Efficient haplotyping in pedigrees is important for the fine mapping of quantitative trait locus (QTL) or complex disease genes. To reconstruct haplotypes efficiently for a large pedigree with a large number of linked loci, two algorithms based on conditional probabilities and likelihood computations are presented. Th...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Gao G,Hoeschele I,Sorensen P,Du F

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The F(1) hybrids of Nicotiana suaveolens (subgenus Petunioides, 2n = 32) and N. glutinosa (subgenus Tabacum, 2n = 24), were examined during their development, from seedlings to mature plants. It was observed that in the hybrids, there was a progressive change of dominant N. glutinosa morphological characteristics towa...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Gupta SB,Gupta P

更新日期：1973-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yeast cells deficient in the transcriptional activator Imp2p are viable, but display marked hypersensitivity to a variety of oxidative agents. We now report that imp2 null mutants are also extremely sensitive to elevated levels of the monovalent ions, Na+ and Li+, as well as to the divalent ions Ca2+, Mn2+, Zn2+, and ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Masson JY,Ramotar D

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Loss of heterozygosity (LOH) can be a driving force in the evolution of mitotic/somatic diploid cells, and cellular changes that increase the rate of LOH have been proposed to facilitate this process. In the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, spontaneous LOH occurs by a number of mechanisms including chromosome loss and ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Andersen MP,Nelson ZW,Hetrick ED,Gottschling DE

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Combined with a system for identifying each of the chromosomes in a genome, visualizing the location of individual genetic loci by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) would aid in assembling physical and genetic maps. Previously, large genomic clones have been successfully used as FISH probes onto somatic chromo...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Lamb JC,Danilova T,Bauer MJ,Meyer JM,Holland JJ,Jensen MD,Birchler JA

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations affecting the self-incompatibility response of Nicotiana alata were generated by irradiation. Mutants in the M1 generation were selected on the basis of pollen tube growth through an otherwise incompatible pistil. Twelve of the 18 M1 plants obtained from the mutagenesis screen were self-compatible. Eleven se...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Golz JF,Su V,Clarke AE,Newbigin E

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti has been the subject of extensive genetic research due to its medical importance and the ease with which it can be manipulated in the laboratory. A molecular genetic linkage map was constructed using 148 amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) and six single-strand conform...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Zhong D,Menge DM,Temu EA,Chen H,Yan G

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In fission yeast, regulation of p34cdc2 plays an important role in the checkpoint coupling mitosis to completion of DNA replication. The cdc2 mutations cdc2-3w (C67Y) and cdc2-4w (C67F) abolish checkpoint control without seriously affecting normal cell proliferation. However the molecular basis of this phenotype is no...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Basi G,Enoch T

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Plasmodium-refractory strain of Anopheles gambiae melanotically encapsulates many species of Plasmodium, whereas wild-type mosquitoes are usually susceptible. This encapsulation trait can also be observed by studying the response of refractory and susceptible strains to intrathoracically injected CM-Sephadex beads. ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Gorman MJ,Severson DW,Cornel AJ,Collins FH,Paskewitz SM

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of genetic variation at allozyme loci, assumed to be selectively neutral, have provided valuable insights into the genetic structure of numerous populations. The degree to which population structure of allozyme variation reflects that of quantitative traits, however, is not well resolved. Here, we compare esti...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Podolsky RH,Holtsford TP

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The infinite-sites model with no recombination is extended to include mutations that affect electrophoretic mobility. The model allows the effect of a single-site mutation to have a continuous effect on mobility. Formulae are obtained for the variance of electrophoretic mobility of alleles after an arbitrary lenght of...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Cobbs G

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00