Molecular characterisation of sweet cherry (Prunus avium L.) genotypes using peach [Prunus persica (L.) Batsch] SSR sequences.

abstract：:The widespread and locally massive introgression of Y chromosomes of the eastern house mouse (Mus musculus musculus) into the range of the western subspecies (M. m. domesticus) in Central Europe calls for an explanation of its underlying mechanisms. Given the paternal inheritance pattern, obvious candidates for traits...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Bímová BV,Macholán M,Ďureje Ľ,Bímová KB,Martincová I,Piálek J

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Assessing in wild populations how fitness is impacted by inbreeding and genetic drift is a major goal for conservation biology. An approach to measure the detrimental effects of inbreeding on fitness is to estimate correlations between molecular variation and phenotypic performances within and among populations. Our s...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Luquet E,Léna JP,David P,Prunier J,Joly P,Lengagne T,Perrin N,Plénet S

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using fast-evolving microsatellites, more slowly evolving ITS markers and performing habitat analyses, we demonstrated a drastic genetic divergence and significant habitat differentiation between early- and late-flowering variants of plants morphologically belonging to Gymnadenia conopsea ssp conopsea. The two phenolo...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Gustafsson S,Lönn M

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At treeline, selection by harsh environmental conditions sets an upward limit to arboreal vegetation. Increasing temperatures and the decline of traditional animal raising have favoured an upward shift of treeline in the last decades. These circumstances create a unique opportunity to study the balance of the main for...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Piotti A,Leonardi S,Piovani P,Scalfi M,Menozzi P

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several classes of models have been suggested to explain how natural selection can favour non-zero recombination. Directional and fluctuating selection, abiotic and biotic, and selection against harmful mutations seem to be the most plausible factors, but little has been done to test the problem experimentally. Here w...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Korol AB,Iliadi KG

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The course of adaptation to heterogeneous environments is influenced by the magnitude of genetic variation for ecologically important characters within each environment and the extent of genotype x environment interaction. Using the genetic correlation between the expression of characters in different environments as ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Via S,Conner J

更新日期：1995-01-01 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：:Pigmentation is one of the most variable traits within and between Drosophila species. Much of this diversity appears to be adaptive, with environmental factors often invoked as selective forces. Here, we describe the geographic structure of pigmentation in Drosophila americana and evaluate the hypothesis that it is a...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Wittkopp PJ,Smith-Winberry G,Arnold LL,Thompson EM,Cooley AM,Yuan DC,Song Q,McAllister BF

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial DNA diversity of seven Silurus glanis populations (six from Greece and one from the Danube Delta) and three populations of the endemic Greek Silurus aristotelis was investigated. RFLP analysis of four regions of mitochondrial DNA (cytochrome b, D-loop, ND-5/6) amplified by PCR was used. Ten and nine hapl...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Triantafyllidis A,Abatzopoulos TJ,Economidis PS

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dispersal in most plants is mediated by the movement of seeds and pollen, which move genes across the landscape differently. Grevillea macleayana is a rare, fire-dependent Australian shrub with large seeds lacking adaptations for dispersal; yet it produces inflorescences adapted to pollination by highly mobile vertebr...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： England PR,Whelan RJ,Ayre DJ

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the mating system of white spruce (Picea glauca) in a landscape fragmented by agriculture in northern Ontario, Canada. We sampled 23 stands that ranged in size from 1 to >500 trees isolated by 250-3000 m from the nearest other stand. Six polymorphic allozyme loci from four enzyme systems were used to genoty...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： O'Connell LM,Mosseler A,Rajora OP

更新日期：2006-12-01 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：:Invasive hybrids and their spread dynamics pose unique opportunities to study evolutionary processes. Invasive hybrids of native Spartina foliosa and introduced S. alterniflora have expanded throughout San Francisco Bay intertidal habitats within the past 35 years by deliberate plantation and seeds floating on the tid...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Sloop CM,Ayres DR,Strong DR

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite of a growing interest in considering the role of sociological factors in seed exchanges and their consequences on the evolutionary dynamics of agro-biodiversity, very few studies assessed the link between ethno-linguistic diversity and genetic diversity patterns in small-holder farming systems. This is key for...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Naino Jika AK,Dussert Y,Raimond C,Garine E,Luxereau A,Takvorian N,Djermakoye RS,Adam T,Robert T

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic rearrangements can result in losses, amplifications, translocations and inversions of DNA fragments thereby modifying genome architecture, and potentially having clinical consequences. Many genomic disorders caused by structural variation have initially been uncovered by early cytogenetic methods. The last dec...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Le Scouarnec S,Gribble SM

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our understanding of the distribution of worldwide human genomic diversity has greatly increased over recent years thanks to the availability of large data sets derived from short tandem repeats (STRs), insertion deletion polymorphisms (indels) and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). A concern, however, is that th...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Romero IG,Manica A,Goudet J,Handley LL,Balloux F

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A long series of studies on mice has shown that mate choice decisions can be made on the basis of individual genotype at the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), which accords well with the importance of immunocompetence in some theories of sexual selection. Recent work on other vertebrate species, including humans...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Jordan WC,Bruford MW

更新日期：1998-08-01 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：:The parapatric distribution of genetically divergent lineages in hybrid zones can be maintained by ecological differences (dispersal-independent 'ecotonal' hybrid zones), by frequency- and density-dependent interference when they intermingle and mate (dispersal-dependent 'tension' hybrid zones), or by both processes a...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Dorken ME,Pannell JR

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosome polymorphism in Drosophila buzzatii is under selection but the genes responsible for the effect of the inversions of fitness are unknown. On the other hand, there is evidence for selection on several allozyme loci but the presence of paracentric inversions on the second chromosome, where most of the polymor...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Betrán E,Quezada-Díaz JE,Ruiz A,Santos M,Fontdevila A

更新日期：1995-02-01 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：:Despite the evidence that the Pleistocene climatic fluctuations have seriously affected the distribution of intraspecific diversity, less is known on its impact on interspecific divergence. In this study, we aimed to test the hypothesis that the divergence of two desert poplar species Populus euphratica Oliv. and P. p...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Wang J,Källman T,Liu J,Guo Q,Wu Y,Lin K,Lascoux M

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic analyses of population structure can be placed in explicit environmental contexts if appropriate environmental data are available. Here, we use high-coverage and high-resolution oceanographic and genetic sequence data to assess population structure patterns and their potential environmental influences for hump...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Mendez M,Subramaniam A,Collins T,Minton G,Baldwin R,Berggren P,Särnblad A,Amir OA,Peddemors VM,Karczmarski L,Guissamulo A,Rosenbaum HC

更新日期：2011-10-01 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

abstract：:Geographical patterns of gene flow and drift were analysed in the commensal cellar spider Pholcus phalangioides to get insight into the causes affecting genetic variation in this species strictly associated with man. Our sampling consisted of 23 subpopulations collected over five urban regions in central Europe (dista...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Schäfer MA,Hille A,Uhl GB

更新日期：2001-01-01 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：:Forty-two homozygous lines each isoallelic for the Esterase 6 (Est-6) locus were extracted from a natural population of Drosophila melanogaster. Homogenates of 4-5 day old virgin adults of each sex from several replicate cultures of each line were assayed for EST6 activity. Depending on the line, males had from three ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Game AY,Oakeshott JG

更新日期：1989-02-01 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：:Population genetic signatures of local adaptation are frequently investigated by identifying loci with allele frequencies that exhibit high correlation with ecological variables. One difficulty with this approach is that ecological associations might be confounded by geographic variation at selectively neutral loci. H...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Frichot E,Schoville SD,de Villemereuil P,Gaggiotti OE,François O

更新日期：2015-07-01 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