On the developmental theory of ageing. II. The effect of developmental temperature on longevity in relation to adult body size in D. melanogaster.

abstract：:The sibling species Anopheles atroparvus and Anopheles labranchiae are cytogenetically almost indistinguishable. The chromosome complement (2n = 6) consists of two pairs of autosomes and two heteromorphic sex chromosomes with largely homologous heterochromatic long arms. Treatment of chromosome preparations with the r...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Marchi A,Mezzanotte R

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant breeders are supported by a range of tools that assist them to make decisions about the conduct or design of plant breeding programs. Simulations are a strategic tool that enables the breeder to integrate the multiple components of a breeding program into a number of proposed scenarios that are compared by a ran...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Hoyos-Villegas V,Arief VN,Yang WH,Sun M,DeLacy IH,Barrett BA,Jahufer Z,Basford KE

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many herbicide-resistant weed species are polyploids, but far too little about the evolution of resistance mutations in polyploids is understood. Hexaploid wild oat (Avena fatua) is a global crop weed and many populations have evolved herbicide resistance. We studied plastidic acetyl-coenzyme A carboxylase (ACCase)-in...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Yu Q,Ahmad-Hamdani MS,Han H,Christoffers MJ,Powles SB

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Empirical evidence is mounting to suggesting that genetic correlations between life-history traits are environment specific. However, detailed knowledge about the loci underlying genetic correlations in different environments is scant. Here, we studied the influence of temperature (12 degrees C and 24 degrees C) on th...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Gutteling EW,Doroszuk A,Riksen JA,Prokop Z,Reszka J,Kammenga JE

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In prediction of genomic values, the single-step method has been demonstrated to outperform multi-step methods. In statistical analyses of longitudinal traits, the random regression test-day model (RR-TDM) has clear advantages over other models. Our goal in this study was to evaluate the performance of a model that in...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Kang H,Zhou L,Mrode R,Zhang Q,Liu JF

更新日期：2017-12-01 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：:How life-history strategies influence the evolution of populations is not well understood. Most existing models stem from the Wright-Fisher model which considers discrete generations and a fixed population size, thus not taking into account any potential consequences of overlapping generations and demographic stochast...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Abu Awad D,Coron C

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hybridization between crops and their weedy or wild relatives is an area of concern because the widespread use of genetically engineered crops may allow novel, beneficial transgenes to enter nearby populations. We compared fitness components of wild Cucurbita pepo from Arkansas, USA, with wild-crop hybrids derived fro...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Spencer LJ,Snow AA

更新日期：2001-06-01 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：: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：:A penalized maximum likelihood method has been proposed as an important approach to the detection of epistatic quantitative trait loci (QTL). However, this approach is not optimal in two special situations: (1) closely linked QTL with effects in opposite directions and (2) small-effect QTL, because the method produces...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Zhang J,Yue C,Zhang YM

更新日期：2012-04-01 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：: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 sequences of ITS1 of the internal transcribed spacer regions of nuclear ribosomal DNA from 11 species or subspecies in four sections of the genus Beta were compared. Phylogeny of these wild beet taxa was inferred from the sequence data using phenetic and phylogenetic analyses. Multiple accessions from the same 11 ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Shen Y,Ford-Lloyd BV,Newbury HJ

更新日期：1998-05-01 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

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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:Quantifying the effect of pollen dispersal and flowering traits on mating success is essential for understanding evolutionary responses to changing environments and establishing strategies for forest tree breeding. This study examined, quantitatively, the effects of male fecundity, interindividual distance and anisotr...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Torimaru T,Wennström U,Lindgren D,Wang XR

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Self-incompatibility (SI) has been well studied in the genera Brassica and Arabidopsis, which have become models for investigation into the SI system. To understand the evolution of the SI system in the Brassicaceae, comparative analyses of the S-locus in genera other than Brassica and Arabidopsis are necessary. We re...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Paetsch M,Mayland-Quellhorst S,Neuffer B

更新日期：2006-10-01 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：: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：: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：:Paternity analysis based on eight microsatellite loci was used to investigate pollen and seed dispersal patterns of the dioecious wind-pollinated tree, Araucaria angustifolia. The study sites were a 5.4 ha isolated forest fragment and a small tree group situated 1.7 km away, located in Paranalpha State, Brazil. In the...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Bittencourt JV,Sebbenn AM

更新日期：2007-12-01 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 variety of questions in population and evolutionary biology are studied using chloroplast DNA (cpDNA). The presumed maternal inheritance in angiosperms allows for certain assumptions and calculations to be made when studying plant hybridization, phylogeography, molecular systematics and seed dispersal. Further, the ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Ellis JR,Bentley KE,McCauley DE

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hieracium pilosella: (Asteraceae) was accidentally introduced to New Zealand about 100 years ago. Since then it has become an aggressive weed, and an unexpected degree of genetic and genome size variation has been detected; features that might result from interspecies hybridization. We investigated the possibility tha...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Morgan-Richards M,Trewick SA,Chapman HM,Krahulcova A

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue and blood samples from 180 fallow deer (Dama dama L.) belonging to an Italian free-ranging population were studied for biochemical variability by means of cellulose acetate and polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The 51 putative genetic loci successfully resolved showed a very low level of variability (P = 0.02...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Randi E,Apollonio M

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00