Genetic and environmental components of variation in eumelanin and phaeomelanin sex-traits in the barn owl.

abstract：:Deciphering the colonization processes by which introduced pests invade new areas is essential to limit the risk of further expansion and/or multiple introductions. We here studied the invasion history of the maritime pine bast scale Matsucoccus feytaudi. This host-specific insect does not cause any damage in its nati...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Kerdelhué C,Boivin T,Burban C

更新日期：2014-11-01 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

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：: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：:Competition among individuals is central to our understanding of ecology and population dynamics. However, it could also have major implications for the evolution of resource-dependent life history traits (for example, growth, fecundity) that are important determinants of fitness in natural populations. This is becaus...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Wilson AJ

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The highly diverse genes of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) are important in the adaptive immune system and are expected to be under selection from pathogens. Thus, the MHC genes provide an exceptional opportunity to investigate patterns of selection within and across populations. In this study, we analyzed...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Fraser BA,Ramnarine IW,Neff BD

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：: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：:Knowledge about the underlying genetic architecture of phenotypic traits is needed to understand and predict evolutionary dynamics. The number of causal loci, magnitude of the effects and location in the genome are, however, still largely unknown. Here, we use genome-wide single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data from...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Silva CNS,McFarlane SE,Hagen IJ,Rönnegård L,Billing AM,Kvalnes T,Kemppainen P,Rønning B,Ringsby TH,Sæther BE,Qvarnström A,Ellegren H,Jensen H,Husby A

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A type of lower motor neuron (LMN) disease inherited as autosomal recessive in Romney sheep was characterized with normal appearance at birth, but with progressive weakness and tetraparesis after the first week of life. Here, we carried out genome-wide homozygosity mapping using Illumina Ovine SNP50 BeadChips on lambs...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Zhao X,Onteru SK,Dittmer KE,Parton K,Blair HT,Rothschild MF,Garrick DJ

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The frequency of individuals resistant to two acetolactate synthase (ALS)-inhibiting herbicides in three previously untreated populations of Lolium rigidum was determined. The frequency of individuals resistant to the sulfonylurea herbicide sulfometuron-methyl varied from 2.2 x 10(-5) to 1.2 x 10(-4) and the frequency...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Preston C,Powles SB

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is great uncertainty about how Ireland attained its current fauna and flora. Long-distance human-mediated colonization from southwestern Europe has been seen as a possible way that Ireland obtained many of its species; however, Britain has (surprisingly) been neglected as a source area for Ireland. The pygmy shr...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： McDevitt AD,Vega R,Rambau RV,Yannic G,Herman JS,Hayden TJ,Searle JB

更新日期：2011-12-01 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：:Correlated multiple testing is widely performed in genetic research, particularly in multilocus analyses of complex diseases. Failure to control appropriately for the effect of multiple testing will either result in a flood of false-positive claims or in true hits being overlooked. Cheverud proposed the idea of adjust...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Li J,Ji L

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cline in the frequency of melanic morphs of the two-spot ladybird, Adalia bipunctata, was first surveyed in 1980 along a transect extending inland from the coast in the Netherlands. At that time, the frequency of melanics increased over some 40 km from 10% near the coast to nearly 60% inland. Additional surveys made...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Brakefield PM,de Jong PW

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies concerning molecular mechanisms of genetic recombination in eukaryotes are reviewed. Since many of these studies have focused on the testable predictions arising from the hybrid DNA theory of genetic recombination, this theory is summarised. Experiments to determine the time of meiotic crossing-over and...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Pukkila PJ

更新日期：1977-10-01 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：:The simple regression method of mapping quantitative trait loci (QTL) is further investigated in comparison with the mixture model maximum likelihood method under high heritabilities, dominant and missing markers. No significant difference between the two methods is detected in terms of errors of parameter estimation ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Xu S

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied in Drosophila melanogaster the effects of allozyme variation at the alpha Gpdh and Adh loci on the following fitness components: female fecundity, egg hatchability, egg-to-adult survival under near-optimal and competitive conditions, rate of development under near-optimal and competitive conditions, an...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Izquierdo JI,Rubio J

更新日期：1989-12-01 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：: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：: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：:Co-operative behaviour may evolve by enhancing the genetic similarity of group members. Increased group similarity is thought to be the basis for the 'subsocial route' of social evolution in the spider family Eresidae. Two processes may promote the similarity of individuals within populations or breeding groups, namel...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Johannesen J,Lubin Y

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Porcellionides pruinosus is a cosmopolitan woodlouse. It is known to exhibit patterns of geographical variation between populations, and has been suspected to consist of several very closely related species. This species was found to carry Wolbachia endosymbionts, alpha-proteobacteria which are known to modify the rep...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Michel-Salzat A,Cordaux R,Bouchon D

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing attention has been paid to the maternally inherited microbes that are capable of manipulating the reproduction of their hosts for their own benefit. Although several studies have revealed that the host genotype can affect the intensity of the manipulation, the underlying genetic basis is poorly understood. ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Kageyama D,Anbutsu H,Shimada M,Fukatsu T

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maternal inheritance is one of the hallmarks of animal mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and central to its success as a molecular marker. This mode of inheritance and subsequent lack of heterologous recombination allows us to retrace evolutionary relationships unambiguously down the matriline and without the confounding effe...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Wolff JN,Nafisinia M,Sutovsky P,Ballard JW

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：: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：:We present an approach for quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping, termed as 'lineage-specific QTL mapping', for inferring allelic changes of QTL evolution along with branches in a phylogeny. We describe and analyze the simplest case: by adding a third taxon into the normal procedure of QTL mapping between pairs of ta...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Chen C,Ritland K

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flowering time differences between metal-tolerant and nontolerant populations of the grass Anthoxanthum odoratum growing across a mine boundary have persisted for over 40 years. These flowering time differences result in a high degree of prezygotic genetic isolation (isolation index=0.43) between the tolerant mine pop...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Antonovics J

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00