Translating available food into the number of eggs laid by Drosophila melanogaster.

abstract：:The conflicts between science and morals which still continue to arise despite the apparent hegemony of atheistic scientism over traditional Judeo-Christianity in the twentieth century reflect a basic contradiction in the metaphysical foundation of Western lives. As was set forth by Machiavelli, the contradiction inhe...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Stent GS

更新日期：1974-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mating type interconversion in Saccharomyces cerevisiae occurs by transposition of copies of the a or alpha mating type cassettes from inactive loci, HML and HMR, to an active locus, MAT. The lack of expression of the a and alpha genes at the silent loci results from repression by trans-acting regulators encoded by SI...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Rine J,Herskowitz I

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Meiotic recombination depends upon the tightly coordinated regulation of chromosome dynamics and is essential for the production of haploid gametes. Central to this process is the formation and repair of meiotic double-stranded breaks (DSBs), which must take place within the constraints of a specialized chromatin arch...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Turcotte CA,Sloat SA,Rigothi JA,Rosenkranse E,Northrup AL,Andrews NP,Checchi PM

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The three-dimensional (3D) organization of chromosomes can influence transcription. However, the frequency and magnitude of these effects remain debated. To determine how changes in chromosome positioning affect transcription across thousands of genes with minimal perturbation, we characterized nuclear organization an...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Di Stefano M,Di Giovanni F,Pozharskaia V,Gomar-Alba M,Baù D,Carey LB,Marti-Renom MA,Mendoza M

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During meiotic prophase, assembly of the synaptonemal complex (SC) brings homologous chromosomes into close apposition along their lengths. The Zip1 protein is a major building block of the SC in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. In the absence of Zip1, SC fails to form, cells arrest or delay in meiotic prophase (depending on...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Mitra N,Roeder GS

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present methods for estimating the parameters of inheritance and selection that appear in a quantitative genetic model for the evolution growth trajectories and other "infinite-dimensional" traits that we recently introduced. Two methods for estimating the additive genetic covariance function are developed, a "full...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Kirkpatrick M,Lofsvold D,Bulmer M

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequences of Bronze2 (Bz2), a maize gene which is required for the synthesis of the purple pigment anthocyanin, have been cloned by combining the techniques of transposon tagging and differential hybridization. First, a mutable bz2 allele (bz2-mu1) was recovered from a Mutator line. The mutation was assumed to result ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： McLaughlin M,Walbot V

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe here a family of P elements that we refer to as type I repressors. These elements are identified by their repressor functions and their lack of any deletion within the first two-thirds of the canonical P sequence. Elements belonging to this repressor class were isolated from P strains and were made in vitr...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Gloor GB,Preston CR,Johnson-Schlitz DM,Nassif NA,Phillis RW,Benz WK,Robertson HM,Engels WR

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Theoretically, one of the most general benefits of sex is given by its function in facilitating selection against deleterious mutations. This advantage of sex may be deterministic if deleterious mutations affect the fitness of an individual in a synergistic way, i.e., if mutations increase each others' negative fitnes...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： de Visser JA,Hoekstra RF,van den Ende H

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recessive mutations in three autosomal genes, him-1, him-5 and him-8, cause high levels of X chromosome nondisjunction in hermaphrodites of Caenorhabditis elegans, with no comparable effect on autosomal disjunction. Each of the mutants has reduced levels of X chromosome recombination, correlating with the increase in ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Broverman SA,Meneely PM

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Restriction map variation in two 5-6-kb chloroplast DNA regions of five diploid Aegilops species in the section Sitopsis and two wild tetraploid wheats, Triticum dicoccoides and Triticum araraticum, was investigated with a battery of four-cutter restriction enzymes. A single accession each of Triticum durum, Triticum ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Miyashita NT,Mori N,Tsunewaki K

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Population structure leads to systematic patterns in measures of mean relatedness between individuals in large genomic data sets, which are often discovered and visualized using dimension reduction techniques such as principal component analysis (PCA). Mean relatedness is an average of the relationships across locus-s...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Li H,Ralph P

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation and stability of epigenetically regulated chromatin is influenced by DNA replication and factors that modulate post-translational modifications on histones. Here we describe evidence that PCNA can affect silencing in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by facilitating deposition of H3 K56ac onto chromosomes. We pro...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Miller A,Yang B,Foster T,Kirchmaier AL

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The need to regulate X chromosome expression in Caenorhabditis elegans arises as a consequence of the primary sex-determining signal, the X/A ratio (the ratio of X chromosomes to sets of autosomes), which directs 1X@A animals to develop as males and 2X/2A animals to develop as hermaphrodites. C. elegans possesses a do...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Hsu DR,Meyer BJ

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heritable silencing effects are gene suppression phenomena that can persist for generations after induction. In the majority of RNAi experiments conducted in Caenorhabditis elegans, the silencing response results in a hypomorphic phenotype where the effects recede after the F1 generation. F2 and subsequent generations...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Alcazar RM,Lin R,Fire AZ

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptional silencing in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae may be linked to DNA replication and cell cycle progression. In this study, we have surveyed the effect of 41 mutations in genes with a role in replication, the cell cycle, and DNA repair on silencing at HMR. Mutations in PCNA (POL30), RF-C (CDC44...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Ehrenhofer-Murray AE,Kamakaka RT,Rine J

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Competition among domesticated plants or animals can have a dramatic negative impact on yield of a stand or farm. The usual quantitative genetic model ignores these competitive interactions and could result in seriously incorrect breeding decisions and acerbate animal well-being. A general solution to this problem is ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Muir WM

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two alternative hypotheses attribute different benefits to codon-anticodon adaptation. The first assumes that protein production is rate limited by both initiation and elongation and that codon-anticodon adaptation would result in higher elongation efficiency and more efficient and accurate protein production, especia...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Xia X

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have analyzed donor and target sites of the mobile element Activator (Ac) that are altered as a result of somatic transposition from the P locus in maize. Previous genetic analysis has indicated that the two mitotic daughter lineages which result from Ac transposition from P differ in their Ac constitution at the P...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Chen J,Greenblatt IM,Dellaporta SL

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently described a yeast assay suitable for genetic screening in which simple religation nonhomologous end-joining (NHEJ) and single-strand annealing (SSA) compete for repair of an I-SceI-created double-strand break. Here, the required allele has been introduced into an array of 4781 MATa deletion mutants and eac...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Wilson TE

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Considering a random mating population of finite size, the variance of the number of loci having a given gene frequency was derived under the assumption of a steady flux of mutations. The variance of average heterozygosity among populations was also derived under the same assumption. It was shown that these variances ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Maruyama T

更新日期：1973-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Drosophila melanogaster Gld gene has multiple and diverse developmental and physiological functions. We report herein that interactions among proximal promoter elements and a cluster of intronically located enhancers and silencers specify the complex regulation of Gld that underlies its diverse functions. Gld expr...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Keplinger BL,Guo X,Quine J,Feng Y,Cavener DR

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used mutational and revertant analysis to study the elements of the 54-nucleotide COX2 5'-untranslated leader involved in translation initiation in yeast mitochondria and in activation by the COX2 translational activator. Pet111p. We generated a collection of mutants with substitutions spanning the entire COX2...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Dunstan HM,Green-Willms NS,Fox TD

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isogenic lines, in which chromosomes sampled from natural populations of C. melanogaster are substituted into a common genetic background, were used to detect and partially characterize autosomal factors that affect the activities of the two pentose phosphate pathway enzymes, glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) a...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Laurie-Ahlberg CC,Williamson JH,Cochrane BJ,Wilton AN,Chasalow FI

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N6-methyladenosine (m6A), catalyzed by Mettl3 methyltransferase, is a highly conserved epigenetic modification in eukaryotic messenger RNA (mRNA). Previous studies have implicated m6A modification in multiple biological processes, but the in vivo function of m6A has been difficult to study, because mettl3 mutants are ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Xia H,Zhong C,Wu X,Chen J,Tao B,Xia X,Shi M,Zhu Z,Trudeau VL,Hu W

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic material sequenced from ancient samples is revolutionizing our understanding of the recent evolutionary past. However, ancient DNA is often degraded, resulting in low coverage, error-prone sequencing. Several solutions exist to this problem, ranging from simple approach, such as selecting a read at random for ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Schraiber JG

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple method of replica plating has been used to isolate mutants of Neurospora crassa that have increased sensitivity to methyl methanesulfonate (MMS) and/or to histidine. Twelve mutants with increased sensitivity to MMS and one mutant with increased sensitivity to histidine showed Mendelian segregation of the muta...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Delange AM,Mishra NC

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper draws attention to the formal parallelism that exists between chromosomal-loss mosaicism and mutagenically induced mosaicism in Drosophila and suggests that, although the underlying processes by which these two types of genetic mosaics are generated are very different, the more refined methodology employed ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Nissani M

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Currently used tests of Hardy-Weinberg proportions do not take into account the nature of the alternative hypothesis, which is generally a heterozygote deficiency. Different exact tests, appropriate for small sample size and large number of alleles, are proposed in this perspective, and their properties are evaluated ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Rousset F,Raymond M

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An elevated mutation rate can provide cells with a source of mutations to adapt to changing environments. We identified a negative epistatic interaction involving naturally occurring variants in the MLH1 and PMS1 mismatch repair (MMR) genes of Saccharomyces cerevisiae We hypothesized that this MMR incompatibility, cre...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Bui DT,Friedrich A,Al-Sweel N,Liti G,Schacherer J,Aquadro CF,Alani E

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00