Drosophila signal peptide peptidase is an essential protease for larval development.

abstract：:beta-Alanine synthase (EC 3.5.1.6), which catalyzes the final step of pyrimidine catabolism, has only been characterized in mammals. A Saccharomyces kluyveri pyd3 mutant that is unable to grow on N-carbamyl-beta-alanine as the sole nitrogen source and exhibits diminished beta-alanine synthase activity was used to clon...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Gojković Z,Sandrini MP,Piskur J

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromatin insulators separate active from repressed chromatin domains. In yeast the RNA pol III transcription machinery bound to tRNA genes function with histone acetylases and chromatin remodelers to restrict the spread of heterochromatin. Our results collectively demonstrate that binding of TFIIIC is necessary for i...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Valenzuela L,Dhillon N,Kamakaka RT

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Satellite DNA is an enigmatic component of genomic DNA with unclear function that has been regarded as "junk." Yet, persistence of these tandem highly repetitive sequences in heterochromatic regions of most eukaryotic chromosomes attests to their importance in the genome. We explored the Anopheles gambiae genome for t...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Krzywinski J,Sangaré D,Besansky NJ

更新日期：2005-01-01 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：:An approximately 135-bp sequence called the A1/A2 repeat was isolated from the transcribed region of the 26-18S rDNA intergenic spacer (IGS) of Nicotiana tomentosiformis. Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) and Southern blot analysis revealed its occurrence as an independent satellite (termed an A1/A2 satellite)...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Lim KY,Skalicka K,Koukalova B,Volkov RA,Matyasek R,Hemleben V,Leitch AR,Kovarik A

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zinc plays many critical roles in biological systems: zinc bound to proteins has structural and catalytic functions, and zinc is proposed to act as a signaling molecule. Because zinc deficiency and excess result in toxicity, animals have evolved sophisticated mechanisms for zinc metabolism and homeostasis. However, th...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Bruinsma JJ,Schneider DL,Davis DE,Kornfeld K

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In California, Drosophila simulans females from some populations (type W) produce relatively few adult progeny when crossed to males from some other populations (type R), but the productivity of the reciprocal cross is comparable to within-population controls. These two incompatibility types are widespread in North Am...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Hoffmann AA,Turelli M

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data are presented for 2,393 progeny from a number of crosses related to a study in ecological genetics of the Burnsi and Kandiyohi polymorphisms in natural populations of the leopard frog, Rana pipiens. No significant differences in viability were found between wild-type homozygotes (+/+) and Burnsi heterozygotes (B/...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Merrell DJ

更新日期：1972-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There have been several attempts to estimate the average dominance (ratio of heterozygous to homozygous effects) of spontaneous deleterious mutations in Drosophila melanogaster, but these have given inconsistent results. We investigated whether transposable element (TE) insertions have higher average dominance for egg...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Fry JD,Nuzhdin SV

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Renal agenesis (RA) is one of the more extreme examples of congenital anomalies of the kidney and urinary tract (CAKUT). Bilateral renal agenesis is almost invariably fatal at birth, and unilateral renal agenesis can lead to future health issues including end-stage renal disease. Genetic investigations have identified...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Brophy PD,Rasmussen M,Parida M,Bonde G,Darbro BW,Hong X,Clarke JC,Peterson KA,Denegre J,Schneider M,Sussman CR,Sunde L,Lildballe DL,Hertz JM,Cornell RA,Murray SA,Manak JR

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A point connecting a pair of homologous regions of DNA duplexes moves along the homology in a reaction intermediate of the homologous recombination. Formulating this movement as a random walk, we were previously successful at explaining the dependence of the recombination frequency on the homology length. Recently, th...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Fujitani Y,Kobayashi I

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maintenance of cell integrity and cell-to-cell communication are fundamental biological processes. Filamentous fungi, such as Neurospora crassa, depend on communication to locate compatible cells, coordinate cell fusion, and establish a robust hyphal network. Two MAP kinase (MAPK) pathways are essential for communicat...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Fischer MS,Wu VW,Lee JE,O'Malley RC,Glass NL

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the interdependence of Gcr1p and Rap1p, we prepared a series of synthetic regulatory sequences that contained various numbers and combinations of CT-boxes (Gcr1p-binding sites) and RPG-boxes (Rap1p-binding sites). The ability of the synthetic oligonucleotides to function as regulatory sequences was tested usi...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Uemura H,Koshio M,Inoue Y,Lopez MC,Baker HV

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein serine/threonine phosphatase type 1 (PP1) has been found in all eukaryotes examined to date and is involved in the regulation of many cellular functions, including glycogen metabolism, muscle contraction, and mitosis. In Drosophila, four genes code for the catalytic subunit of PP1 (PP1c), three of which belong...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Kirchner J,Gross S,Bennett D,Alphey L

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Efficient haplotyping in pedigrees is important for the fine mapping of quantitative trait locus (QTL) or complex disease genes. To reconstruct haplotypes efficiently for a large pedigree with a large number of linked loci, two algorithms based on conditional probabilities and likelihood computations are presented. Th...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Gao G,Hoeschele I,Sorensen P,Du F

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosome 1A(m) of Triticum monococcum is closely homeologous to T. aestivum chromosome 1A but recombines with it little in the presence of the wheat suppressor of homeologous chromosome pairing, Ph1. In the absence of Ph1, the two chromosomes recombine as if they were completely homologous. Chromosomes having either...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Luo MC,Dubcovsky J,Dvorák J

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have shown that the phenotypes resulting from hypomorphic mutations (causing reduction but not complete loss of function) in two X-linked genes can be used as a genetic assay for X-chromosome dosage compensation in Caenorhabditis elegans between males (XO) and hermaphrodites (XX). In addition we show that recessive...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Meneely PM,Wood WB

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methodology for mapping quantitative trait loci (QTL) has focused primarily on treating the QTL as a fixed effect. These methods differ from the usual models of genetic variation that treat genetic effects as random. Computationally expensive methods that allow QTL to be treated as random have been explicitly develope...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Zimmer D,Mayer M,Reinsch N

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The idealized individual in many fungal species is a haploid self-sterile hermaphrodite that may be propagated by asexually produced spores or that may reproduce sexually. In field populations, polymorphism occurs for female-sterile/hermaphrodite status, and female-sterile mutants, which function only as males during ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Leslie JF,Klein KK

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic adaptation to external stimuli occurs through the combined action of mutation and selection. A central problem in genetics is to identify loci responsive to specific selective constraints. Many tests have been proposed to identify the genomic signatures of natural selection by quantifying the skew in the site ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Ronen R,Udpa N,Halperin E,Bafna V

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many complex human traits exhibit differences between sexes. While numerous factors likely contribute to this phenomenon, growing evidence from genome-wide studies suggest a partial explanation: that males and females from the same population possess differing genetic architectures. Despite this, mapping gene-by-sex (...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Funkhouser SA,Vazquez AI,Steibel JP,Ernst CW,Los Campos G

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous models suggested that regulation of telomere length in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by Tel1(ATM) and Mec1(ATR) would parallel the established pathways regulating the DNA damage response. Here, we provide evidence that telomere length regulation differs from the DNA damage response in both the Tel1 and Mec1 pathwa...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Keener R,Connelly CJ,Greider CW

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetical and biochemical studies have been performed with revertants induced in a polyaromatic mutant (No. 58) in the arom gene cluster of Neurospora crassa. In addition to complete and partial revertants able to grow on minimal at both 25 degrees and 35 degrees , temperature-sensitive revertants capable of growth on...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Case ME,Giles NH

更新日期：1974-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laboratory strains of mice are thought to be derived from wild populations of Mus domesticus. Many instances of non-domesticus genetic information fixed in these strains have been described, however, and the amount of strain-to-strain genetic variation exceeds that found in wild domesticus populations. In order to est...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Blank RD,Campbell GR,D'Eustachio P

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterochromatin protein 1a (HP1a) is a highly conserved and versatile epigenetic factor that can both silence and activate transcription. However, the function of HP1a in development has been underinvestigated. Here, we report the role of maternal HP1a in producing maternal transcripts that drive early Drosophila embr...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Park AR,Liu N,Neuenkirchen N,Guo Q,Lin H

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The K1 killer plasmid, [KIL-k1], of Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a 1.25 x 10(6) dalton linear double-stranded RNA plasmid coding for a protein toxin and immunity to that toxin. The [KIL-sd1] plasmid is a replication-defective mutant of [KIL-k1] that depends on one of the recessive chromosomal superkiller (ski-) mutatio...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Wickner RB,Toh-e A

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study addresses three questions about the properties of recombination hotspots in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: How much DNA is required for double-strand-break (DSB) site recognition? Do naturally occurring DSB sites compete with each other in meiotic recombination? What role does the sequence located at the sites o...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Haring SJ,Halley GR,Jones AJ,Malone RE

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oligosyndactylism (Os) is a radiation-induced mutation on mouse chromosome 8 associated with early postimplantation lethality in homozygotes and abnormal development of the limbs and kidneys in heterozygotes. The recessive lethal effect of Os is due to a mitotic block of the embryonic cells that becomes apparent at th...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Pravtcheva DD,Wise TL

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Samples of Rhynchosporium secalis were collected from two experimental barley populations known to carry a diverse array of alleles for resistance to this fungal pathogen. Classification of 163 isolates for four putative isozyme systems, a colony color dimorphism and 20 ribosomal DNA restriction fragment length varian...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： McDermott JM,McDonald BA,Allard RW,Webster RK

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recessive mutant alleles at the autosomal dpy-21 locus of C. elegans cause a dumpy phenotype in XX animals but not in XO animals. This dumpy phenotype is characteristic of X chromosome aneuploids with higher than normal X to autosome ratios and is proposed to result from overexpression of X-linked genes. We have isola...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Meneely PM,Wood WB

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00