Geographical patterns of genetic subdivision in the cellar spider Pholcus phalangioides (Araneae).

abstract：:Rainforests in Australia and around the world have been extensively cleared and degraded. It is essential to recognize the changes in population diversity and dynamics that follow habitat fragmentation if better conservation and management strategies are to be developed. This study is an investigation of the medium te...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Rossetto M,Jones R,Hunter J

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phytophagous insects that damage crops are often polyphagous, feeding on several types of crop and on weeds. The refuges constituted by noncrop host plants may be useful in managing the evolution in pest species of resistance to the Bacillus thuringiensis toxins produced by transgenic crops. However, the benefits ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Martel C,Réjasse A,Rousset F,Bethenod MT,Bourguet D

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a study of fine-scale spatial genetic structure (SGS) and assess the impact of seed and pollen dispersal on the pattern of genetic diversity in the predominantly selfing Hordeum spontaneum. The study included (1) direct measurement of dispersal in a controlled environment, and (2) analyses of SGS and estima...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Volis S,Zaretsky M,Shulgina I

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prevention of malaria transmission throughout much of Africa is dependent on bednets that are impregnated with pyrethroid insecticides. Anopheles arabiensis is the major malaria vector in Chad and efforts to control this vector are threatened by the emergence of pyrethroid resistance. WHO bioassays revealed that An. a...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Witzig C,Parry M,Morgan JC,Irving H,Steven A,Cuamba N,Kerah-Hinzoumbé C,Ranson H,Wondji CS

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genome size and the base composition (GC%) of eight Hypochaeris species were determined by flow cytometry in order to establish the pattern of nuclear DNA variation within the genus. The species analysed showed an almost fivefold range of variation from 1.68 pg in H. cretensis to 8.10 pg in H. uniflora. This varia...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Cerbah M,Coulaud J,Brown SC,Siljak-Yakovlev S

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The polyploid Salix alba-Salix fragilis hybrid complex is rather difficult to study when using only morphological characters. Most of the features have a low diagnostic value for unambiguously identifying the hybrids, introgression patterns and population structures, though morphological traits have proved to be usefu...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Triest L,De Greef B,De Bondt R,Van Slycken J

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Climatic changes have played major roles in plants' evolutionary history. Glacial oscillations have been particularly important, but some of their effects on plants' populations are poorly understood, including the numbers and locations of refugia in Asian warm temperate zones. In the present study, we investigated th...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Aoki K,Tamaki I,Nakao K,Ueno S,Kamijo T,Setoguchi H,Murakami N,Kato M,Tsumura Y

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To confirm whether sex-linked genes of the silkworm are dosage compensated or not, we investigated three RAPDs and one RFLP marker which have been mapped to the Z chromosome as candidate genes to test for dosage compensation. Northern blot analysis demonstrated that one of the RAPDs, T15.180a, is transcribed into seve...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Suzuki MG,Shimada T,Kobayashi M

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colonizing events may expose organisms to physical and ecological environments found nowhere else in their range. Novel selection pressures can then influence subsequent rapid evolutionary changes. Here, I investigate the genetics of one such rapid change in the sexual signal of Polynesian field crickets, Teleogryllus...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Tinghitella RM

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estimating kinship is fundamental for studies of evolution, conservation, and breeding. Genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) and other restriction based genotyping methods have become widely applied in these applications in non-model organisms. However, sequencing errors, depth, and reproducibility between library preps cou...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Hall D,Zhao W,Wennström U,Andersson Gull B,Wang XR

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 76 sweet cherry genotypes were screened with 34 microsatellite primer pairs previously developed in peach. Amplification of SSR loci was obtained for 24 of the microsatellite primer pairs, and 14 of them produced polymorphic amplification patterns. On the basis of polymorphism and quality of amplification, ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Wünsch A,Hormaza JI

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hybrid zones provide excellent opportunities to study processes and mechanisms underlying reproductive isolation and speciation. Here we investigated sex-specific clines of molecular markers in hybrid zones of morphologically cryptic yet genetically highly-diverged evolutionary lineages of the European common vole (Mi...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Sutter A,Beysard M,Heckel G

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Southern Italy has a long history of human occupation and passage of different cultures since the Early Holocene. Repeated, ancient introductions of pigs in several geographic areas in Europe make it difficult to understand pig translocation and domestication in Italy. The archeozoological record may provide fundament...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Lega C,Fulgione D,Genovese A,Rook L,Masseti M,Meiri M,Cinzia Marra A,Carotenuto F,Raia P

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Podisma pedestris exists as both an XO and neoXY form in the Southern French Alps. These chromosome types are shown to be contiguously allopatric and hybrid populations have been located in several places. Hybridisation appears to be occurring freely, but the hybrid zones are quite narrow. In several places the two di...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Hewitt GM

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

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：: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：: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

abstract：:The theoretical impacts of anthropogenic habitat degradation on genetic resources have been well articulated. Here we use a simulation approach to assess the magnitude of expected genetic change, and review 31 studies of 23 neotropical tree species to assess whether empirical case studies conform to theory. Major diff...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Lowe AJ,Boshier D,Ward M,Bacles CF,Navarro C

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Co-evolution of fungal pathogens with their host species during the domestication of modern crop varieties has likely affected the current genetic divergence of pathogen populations. The objective of this study was to determine if the evolutionary history of the obligate rust pathogen on wheat, Puccinia triticina, is ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Liu M,Rodrigue N,Kolmer J

更新日期：2014-04-01 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：:The theory, construction and optimization of a model of chromosome pairing in triploid hybrids are re-examined and the model reconstructed. A new approach to optimization is described that removes a bias in the estimation of x, the measure of relative affinity, by weighting the observed and calculated meiotic figure f...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Chapman CGD,Kimber G

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction between rapidly evolving centromere sequences and conserved kinetochore machinery appears to be mediated by centromere-binding proteins. A recent theory proposes that the independent evolution of centromere-binding proteins in isolated populations may be a universal cause of speciation among eukaryotes...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Sainz A,Wilder JA,Wolf M,Hollocher H

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of local adaptation is rendered difficult by many evolutionary confounding phenomena (for example, genetic drift and demographic history). When complex traits are involved in local adaptation, phenomena such as phenotypic plasticity further hamper evolutionary biologists to study the complex relationships be...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： de Villemereuil P,Gaggiotti OE,Mouterde M,Till-Bottraud I

更新日期：2016-03-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Although allelic variants at a locus usually are expressed either dominantly or co-dominantly, there are many cases when a gene is dominantly expressed in some individuals and co-dominantly in others. We present a maximum-likelihood procedure for allele frequency estimation in such situations of "incomplete" co-domina...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Jorde PE,Ryman N

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Equilibrium sex ratios have been determined analytically under Wright's island model in order to determine the effect of population structure with limited dispersal. When mating occurs before dispersal, the dispersal rate has little or no effect, and the equilibrium sex ratio remains the same as under complete dispers...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Bulmer MG

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the asexual reproductive modes, androgenesis is probably one of the most astonishing and least studied mechanisms. In this 'paternal monopolization', the maternal nuclear genome fails to participate in zygote development and offspring are paternal nuclear clones. Obligate androgenesis is known in only a few orga...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Pigneur LM,Hedtke SM,Etoundi E,Van Doninck K

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00