Mitochondrial DNA and chromosomal studies of wild mice (Mus) from Turkey and Iran.

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：: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：:Self-incompatibility (SI) has been well studied in the genera Brassica and Arabidopsis, which have become models for investigation into the SI system. To understand the evolution of the SI system in the Brassicaceae, comparative analyses of the S-locus in genera other than Brassica and Arabidopsis are necessary. We re...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Paetsch M,Mayland-Quellhorst S,Neuffer B

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic selection has become a reality in plant breeding programs with the reduction in genotyping costs. Especially in maize breeding programs, it emerges as a promising tool for predicting hybrid performance. The dynamics of a commercial breeding program involve the evaluation of several traits simultaneously in a l...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： de Oliveira AA,Resende MFR Jr,Ferrão LFV,Amadeu RR,Guimarães LJM,Guimarães CT,Pastina MM,Margarido GRA

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Local adaptation is a common feature of plant and animal populations. Adaptive phenotypic traits are genetically differentiated along environmental gradients, but the genetic basis of such adaptation is still poorly known. Genetic association studies of local adaptation combine data over populations. Correcting for po...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Kujala ST,Knürr T,Kärkkäinen K,Neale DB,Sillanpää MJ,Savolainen O

更新日期：2017-05-01 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：: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：:Hybridization between wild and domestic bovine species occurs worldwide either spontaneously or by organized crossing. We have analysed hybridization of banteng (Bos javanicus) and zebu (Bos indicus) in south-east Asian cattle using mitochondrial DNA (PCR-RFLP and sequencing), AFLP, satellite fragment length polymorph...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Nijman IJ,Otsen M,Verkaar EL,de Ruijter C,Hanekamp E,Ochieng JW,Shamshad S,Rege JE,Hanotte O,Barwegen MW,Sulawati T,Lenstra JA

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of population size and spatial isolation on contemporary gene flow by pollen and mating patterns in temperate forest trees are not well documented, although they are crucial factors in the life history of plant species. We analysed a small, isolated population and a large, continuous population of the in...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Hoebee SE,Arnold U,Düggelin C,Gugerli F,Brodbeck S,Rotach P,Holderegger R

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sex ratio theory attempts to explain variation at all levels (species, population, individual, brood) in the proportion of offspring that are male (the sex ratio). In many cases this work has been extremely successful, providing qualitative and even quantitative explanations of sex ratio variation. However, this is no...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： West SA,Reece SE,Sheldon BC

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MtDNA restriction fragment polymorphisms were found between cytoplasmic male-sterility types P and R of Plantago lanceolata with the homologous probe pPl311 and maize mtDNA fragments derived from the regions of atp1, cox1 and cox2. No mtDNA differences were observed between male- sterile and restored plants with the s...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Groenendijk CF,Sandbrink JM,Brederode JV,van Damme JM

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants mediate carbon into most ecosystems and are thus under persistent attack by diverse enemies. The evolution of defense against such assaults will depend on the availability of genetic variation, as well as the costs and constraints on defense. We estimated the magnitude of genetic variation for defense against s...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Ivey CT,Carr DE,Eubanks MD

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Echinoderms represent a researchable subset of a dynamic larval evolutionary cosmos. Evolution of echinoderm larvae has taken place over widely varying time scales from the origins of larvae of living classes in the early Palaeozoic, approximately 500 million years ago, to recent, rapid and large-scale changes that ha...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Raff RA,Byrne M

更新日期：2006-09-01 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：:The hypothesis that traits closely associated with fitness will generally possess lower heritabilities than traits more loosely connected with fitness is tested using 1120 narrow sense heritability estimates for wild, outbred animal populations, collected from the published record. Our results indicate that life histo...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Mousseau TA,Roff DA

更新日期：1987-10-01 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：:Recent molecular genetic analyses of Drosophila melanogaster and mouse central nervous system (CNS) development revealed strikingly similar genetic patterning mechanisms in the formation of the insect and vertebrate brain. Thus, in both insects and vertebrates, the correct regionalization and neuronal identity of the ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Lichtneckert R,Reichert H

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nothofagus cunninghamii is a long-lived, wind-pollinated tree species that dominates the cool temperate rainforests of southeastern Australia. The species' distribution is more or less continuous in western Tasmania but is fragmented elsewhere. However, it is unknown whether this fragmentation has affected the species...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Duncan CJ,Worth JR,Jordan GJ,Jones RC,Vaillancourt RE

更新日期：2016-01-01 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：:The study of nuclear genealogies in natural populations of nonmodel organisms is expected to provide novel insights into the evolutionary history of populations, especially when developed in the framework of well-established mtDNA phylogeographical scenarios. In the Iberian Peninsula, the endemic Schreiber's green liz...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Godinho R,Mendonça B,Crespo EG,Ferrand N

更新日期：2006-06-01 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：:The pattern of colonization of a forest site by the ectomycorrhizal basidiomycete fungus Hebeloma cylindrosporum Romagnesi was followed from 1993 until 1997. Fruit-bodies of this tetrapolar heterothallic species were mapped, collected and propagated as pure mycelial cultures. Isolates were analysed for their mating-ty...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Gryta H,Debaud JC,Marmeisse R

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Principal components analysis of genetic data is used to avoid inflation in type I error rates in association testing due to population stratification by covariate adjustment using the top eigenvectors and to estimate cluster or group membership independent of self-reported or ethnic identities. Eigendecomposition tra...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Shriner D

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phlebotomus ariasi is one of the two sandflies transmitting the causative agent of zoonotic leishmaniasis, Leishmania infantum, in France and Iberia, and provides a rare case study of the postglacial re-colonization of France by a Mediterranean species. Four DNA sequences were analysed-mitochondrial cytochrome b (cyt ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Mahamdallie SS,Pesson B,Ready PD

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated genetic diversity among and within natural populations of Asian common wild rice, Oryza rufipogon, from three different classes of data: quantitative traits, allozymes, and restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs). The seven populations examined showed polymorphism to varying degrees. The amou...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Cai HW,Wang XK,Morishima H

更新日期：2004-05-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Populations of Cepaea hortensis have been sampled from an area of 121 sq km on the north slopes of the Brendon Hills, Somerset, and analysed for chiasma frequency. Variation in chiasma frequency is due to variation in a single large bivalent--the A group bivalent. In 12 populations studied during 1973 no association b...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Price DJ

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00