Patterns of pollen dispersal in a small population of Pinus sylvestris L. revealed by total-exclusion paternity analysis.

abstract：:In the context of frequency-dependent selection, the effect of conditioning the medium, by the previous culture of larvae of a given strain, on the survival of subsequent larvae of the same or different strains was measured. Six strains were sued, some inbred and some lines selected for low or high sternopleural brist...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Dolan R,Robertson A

更新日期：1975-12-01 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：:A high resolution analysis of the G-band patterns of normal and aberrant chromosomes 1, bearing two linked insertions of homogeneously staining regions (HSRs) in the house mouse (Mus musculus musculus) reveals the inverted pattern of the euchromatic region between the HSRs. On the basis of this analysis a hypothesis o...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Agulnik SI,Borodin PM,Gorlov IP,Ladygina TYu,Pak SD

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene flow via pollen movement affects genetic variation in plant populations and is an important consideration in plant domestication. Fontainea picrosperma is a subcanopy rainforest tree that is of commercial interest because it is the source of tigilanol tiglate, a natural product used for the treatment of solid tum...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Grant EL,Conroy GC,Lamont RW,Reddell PW,Wallace HM,Ogbourne SM

更新日期：2019-10-01 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：:Gene flow was investigated in Anopheles gambiae from eight localities that span the ecological zones of Nigeria (arid savanna zones in the north gradually turn into humid forest zones in the south). Genetic differentiation was measured over 10 microsatellite loci and, to determine any effects of selection, five loci w...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Onyabe DY,Conn JE

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Determination of mammalian sex depends on the presence or absence of a functional testis. Testes are determined by the activity of the testis determining factor encoded by the sex determining gene, Y (SRY) located on the Y chromosome. Considerable evidence suggests that the SRY gene is the only gene on the Y chromosom...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： McElreavey K,Barbaux S,Ion A,Fellous M

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolve and resequence (E&R) is a new approach to investigate the genomic responses to selection during experimental evolution. By using whole genome sequencing of pools of individuals (Pool-Seq), this method can identify selected variants in controlled and replicable experimental settings. Reviewing the current state ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Schlötterer C,Kofler R,Versace E,Tobler R,Franssen SU

更新日期：2015-05-01 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：:Understanding the breeding system and population genetic structure of invasive weed species is important for biocontrol, and contributes to our understanding of the evolutionary processes associated with invasions. Hieracium lepidulum is an invasive weed in New Zealand, colonising a diverse range of habitats including...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Chapman H,Robson B,Pearson ML

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic differentiation of populations is usually studied by using the equilibrium theory of Wright's infinite island model. In practice, however, populations are not always in equilibrium, and the number of subpopulations is often very small. To get some insight into the dynamics of genetic differentiation of the...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Varvio SL,Chakraborty R,Nei M

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 'Hill-Robertson (HR) effect' describes that linkage between sites under selection will reduce the overall effectiveness of selection in finite populations. Here we discuss the major concepts associated with the HR effect and present results of computer simulations focusing on the linkage effects generated by multi...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Comeron JM,Williford A,Kliman RM

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in both men and women in the US. While most sporadic lung cancer cases are related to environmental factors such as smoking, genetic susceptibility may also play an important role and a number of lung cancer associated single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) have been i...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Lei X,Yuan D,Zhu Z,Huang S

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have constructed a linkage map for the peppered moth (Biston betularia), the classical ecological genetics model of industrial melanism, aimed both at localizing the network of loci controlling melanism and making inferences about chromosome dynamics. The linkage map, which is based primarily on amplified fragment ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Van't Hof AE,Nguyen P,Dalíková M,Edmonds N,Marec F,Saccheri IJ

更新日期：2013-03-01 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：:The quantitative genetic properties are derived for the bulk F2 originating from random fertilization (RF) amongst hybrid (F1) individuals. Only its mean appears to have been derived previously, and that definition is confirmed (by another method). New general equations are found also for all genotype frequencies, all...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Gordon IL

更新日期：2000-07-01 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：:The vertical transmission of Wolbachia in two species of spider mite was investigated and compared. One species, Tetranychus kanzawai Kishida, was infected with a modification negative strain of Wolbachia while the other species, Panonychus mori Yokoyama, was infected with a modification positive strain. The infection...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Hong XY,Gotoh T,Nagata T

更新日期：2002-03-01 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：:Recent developments in the analysis of density dependent competition in Drosophila melanogaster have identified two distinct parameters, namely the competitive pressure or aggression exerted by a genotype and the sensitivity or response of a genotype to such aggression. Assuming that response is more related to the ef...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： de Miranda JR,Eggleston P

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pinewood nematode (Bursaphelenchus xylophilus) is an invasive species that causes a destructive forest disease-pine wilt disease. This disease has been prevalent in some countries in Asia since the 1970s. An amplified fragment length polymorphism survey was used to compare the genetic variation of native and invasive ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Cheng XY,Cheng FX,Xu RM,Xie BY

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work we report the development and characterization of 10 microsatellite loci for the endangered tree species Caryocar brasiliense. Using genomic library enrichment, the efficiency of SSR marker development was 14.4% from sequencing data to operationally useful loci. Primer sequences for this set of 10 loci ar...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Collevatti RG,Brondani RV,Grattapaglia D

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Restriction endonuclease variation in the 12 kb region surrounding the Adh locus was measured in seven Australian and six Chinese populations of Drosophila melanogaster. There is a higher level of nucleotide-substitution variation in the Australian populations than in the Chinese, which is possibly a reflection of the...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Jiang JC,Gibson JB

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been proposed that the distribution patterns and coalescence ages found in Europeans for mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroups V, H1 and H3 are the result of a post-glacial expansion from a Franco-Cantabrian refuge that recolonized central and northern areas. In contrast, in this refined mtDNA study of the Cant...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： García O,Fregel R,Larruga JM,Álvarez V,Yurrebaso I,Cabrera VM,González AM

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differences in mating time between populations can give rise to premating reproductive isolation. Tephritid fruit flies exhibit large variation in mating time among intra- or inter-specific populations. We previously cloned the clock gene period from two strains of melon fly, Bactrocera cucurbitae; in one the individu...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Fuchikawa T,Sanada S,Nishio R,Matsumoto A,Matsuyama T,Yamagishi M,Tomioka K,Tanimura T,Miyatake T

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Africanization of the honeybee (Apis mellifera) in South America is one of the most spectacular examples of biological invasions. In this study, we analyzed the Africanization process in Central Mexico along an altitudinal transect from 72 to 2800 m, using both mitochondrial and nuclear DNA markers. The mitochondr...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Kraus FB,Franck P,Vandame R

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic selection (GS) potentially offers an unparalleled advantage over traditional pedigree-based selection (TS) methods by reducing the time commitment required to carry out a single cycle of tree improvement. This quality is particularly appealing to tree breeders, where lengthy improvement cycles are the norm. We...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Ratcliffe B,El-Dien OG,Klápště J,Porth I,Chen C,Jaquish B,El-Kassaby YA

更新日期：2015-12-01 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：:"Parent-offspring conflict" is a theoretical concept proposing that siblings are selected to be slightly more greedy with each other than parents are selected to tolerate. This paper extends a class of previous models of parent-offspring conflict by introducing a new and more realistic dimension to the analysis: the a...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Bull JJ

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the crucial role of cyanobacteria in various ecosystems, little is known about their evolutionary histories, especially microevolutionary dynamics, because of the lack of knowledge regarding their mutation rates. Here we directly estimated cyanobacterial mutation rates based on ancient DNA analyses of ice core...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Segawa T,Takeuchi N,Fujita K,Aizen VB,Willerslev E,Yonezawa T

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00