Deep haplotype divergence and long-range linkage disequilibrium at xp21.1 provide evidence that humans descend from a structured ancestral population.

abstract：:The plant mitochondrial genome is composed of a set of molecules of various sizes that generate each other through recombination between repeated sequences. Molecular observations indicate that these different molecules are present in an equilibrium state. Different compositions of molecules have been observed within ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Albert B,Godelle B,Atlan A,De Paepe R,Gouyon PH

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During animal development, transcription factor activities are modulated by several means, including subcellular localization. The Hox cofactor Extradenticle (Exd) has a dynamic subcellular localization, such that Exd is cytoplasmic by default, but is nuclear when complexed with another homeodomain protein, Homothorax...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Stevens KE,Mann RS

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the number of X-linked loci specifically required only during oogenesis. Complementation analyses among female-sterile (fs) mutations obtained in two mutagenesis screens--GANS' and MOHLER's--indicate that any fs locus represented by two or more mutant alleles in GANS' collection are usually present in...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Perrimon N,Mohler D,Engstrom L,Mahowald AP

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analyses of 113 putative Mutator-induced events involving the yg2 locus of chromosome 9 revealed that 11 of these events were deletions that produce albino seedlings when homozygous. This phenotype is characteristic of wd (white deficiency) deletions. All 11 wd-Mu deletions failed to complement wd1 and pyd1 (pale-yell...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Robertson DS,Stinard PS,Maguire MP

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Saccharomyces cerevisiae nuclear membrane is part of a complex nuclear envelope environment also containing chromatin, integral and peripheral membrane proteins, and large structures such as nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) and the spindle pole body. To study how properties of the nuclear membrane affect nuclear enve...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Witkin KL,Friederichs JM,Cohen-Fix O,Jaspersen SL

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of fitness effects (DFE) encompasses the fraction of deleterious, neutral, and beneficial mutations. It conditions the evolutionary trajectory of populations, as well as the rate of adaptive molecular evolution (α). Inferring DFE and α from patterns of polymorphism, as given through the site frequency...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Tataru P,Mollion M,Glémin S,Bataillon T

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed stochastic population genetic theory for mitochondrial and chloroplast genes, using an infinite alleles model appropriate for molecular genetic data. We considered the effects of mutation, random drift, and migration in a finite island model on selectively neutral alleles. Recurrence equations were obtain...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Birky CW Jr,Fuerst P,Maruyama T

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We study levels of X-linked vs. autosomal diversity using a model developed to analyze the hitchhiking effect. Repeated bouts of hitchhiking are thought to lower X-linked diversity for two reasons: first, because sojourn times of beneficial mutations are shorter on the X, and second, because adaptive substitutions may...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Betancourt AJ,Kim Y,Orr HA

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laterality is believed to have genetic components, as has been deduced from family studies in humans and responses to artificial selection in mice, but these genetic components are unknown and the underlying physiological mechanisms are still a subject of dispute. We measured direction of laterality (preferential use ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Roubertoux PL,Le Roy I,Tordjman S,Cherfou A,Migliore-Samour D

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The availability of genomewide dense markers brings opportunities and challenges to breeding programs. An important question concerns the ways in which dense markers and pedigrees, together with phenotypic records, should be used to arrive at predictions of genetic values for complex traits. If a large number of marke...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： de los Campos G,Naya H,Gianola D,Crossa J,Legarra A,Manfredi E,Weigel K,Cotes JM

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We discuss the conceptual conflict between a slow series of gene substitutions as the mechanism of evolutionary change, and the apparent need for rapid and coordinated changes at many loci simultaneously in producing complex adaptations. To improve on the limitations of classical theory and accommodate the enormous am...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Koehler DO,Whitten BL,Gregg TG

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The characterization of the distribution of mutational effects is a key goal in evolutionary biology. Recently developed deep-sequencing approaches allow for accurate and simultaneous estimation of the fitness effects of hundreds of engineered mutations by monitoring their relative abundance across time points in a si...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Matuszewski S,Hildebrandt ME,Ghenu AH,Jensen JD,Bank C

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A semi-lethal, sterile allele of the smooth locus (2-91.5), sm3, was discovered in an artificial selection line for low abdominal bristle number that had been started from a P-M dysgenic cross. The fitness effects and extremely low bristle number phenotype of the allele could not be separated by recombination from a P...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： zur Lage P,Shrimpton AD,Flavell AJ,Mackay TF,Brown AJ

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large offspring-number diploid biparental multilocus population model of Moran type is our object of study. At each time step, a pair of diploid individuals drawn uniformly at random contributes offspring to the population. The number of offspring can be large relative to the total population size. Similar "heavily ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Birkner M,Blath J,Eldon B

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA polymerase II (RNAPII) in eukaryotic cells drives transcription of most messenger RNAs. RNAPII core enzyme is composed of 12 polypeptides where Rpb1 is the largest subunit. To further understand the mechanisms of RNAPII transcription, we isolated and characterized novel point mutants of RPB1 that are sensitive to ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Malagon F,Kireeva ML,Shafer BK,Lubkowska L,Kashlev M,Strathern JN

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to learn more about other proteins that may be involved in repression of HML and HMR in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, extragenic suppressor mutations were identified that could restore repression in cells defective in SIR4, a gene required for function of the silencer elements flanking HML and HMR. These suppress...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Schnell R,D'Ari L,Foss M,Goodman D,Rine J

更新日期：1989-05-01 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：:The genetics of phenotypic variation in inbred mice has for nearly a century provided a primary weapon in the medical research arsenal. A catalog of the genetic variation among inbred mouse strains, however, is required to enable powerful positional cloning and association techniques. A recent whole-genome resequencin...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Kirby A,Kang HM,Wade CM,Cotsapas C,Kostem E,Han B,Furlotte N,Kang EY,Rivas M,Bogue MA,Frazer KA,Johnson FM,Beilharz EJ,Cox DR,Eskin E,Daly MJ

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic chromosome segregation requires a protein complex known as the kinetochore that mediates attachment between mitotic spindle microtubules and centromere-specific nucleosomes composed of the widely conserved histone variant CENP-A. Mutations in kinetochore proteins of the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pom...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Gao C,Langbein L,Kamal F,George AA,Walworth NC

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The availability of the complete DNA sequence of the Chlamydomonas reinhardtii genome and advanced computational biology tools has allowed elucidation and study of the small ubiquitin-like modifier (SUMO) system in this unicellular photosynthetic alga and model eukaryotic cell system. SUMO is a member of a ubiquitin-l...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Wang Y,Ladunga I,Miller AR,Horken KM,Plucinak T,Weeks DP,Bailey CP

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The contribution of epigenetic alterations to natural variation for gene transcription levels remains unclear. In this study, we investigated the functional targets of the maize chromomethylase ZMET2 in multiple inbred lines to determine whether epigenetic changes conditioned by this chromomethylase are conserved or v...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Makarevitch I,Stupar RM,Iniguez AL,Haun WJ,Barbazuk WB,Kaeppler SM,Springer NM

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The long terminal repeat retrotransposon, Magnaporthe gypsy-like element (MAGGY), has been shown to be targeted for cytosine methylation in a subset of Magnaporthe oryzae field isolates. Analysis of the F1 progeny from a genetic cross between methylation-proficient (Br48) and methylation-deficient (GFSI1-7-2) isolates...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Ikeda K,Van Vu B,Kadotani N,Tanaka M,Murata T,Shiina K,Chuma I,Tosa Y,Nakayashiki H

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

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：: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：:In Drosophila there exist several examples of gene expression that can be modified by an interaction between alleles; this effect is known as transvection. The inference that alleles interact comes from the observations that homologous chromosomes pair in mitotically dividing cells, and that chromosome rearrangements ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Golic MM,Golic KG

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adaptive introgression is common in nature and can be driven by selection acting on multiple, linked genes. We explore the effects of polygenic selection on introgression under the infinitesimal model with linkage. This model assumes that the introgressing block has an effectively infinite number of loci, each with an...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Sachdeva H,Barton NH

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haploid Saccharomyces can change mating type through HO-endonuclease cleavage of an expressor locus, MAT, followed by gene conversion using one of two repository loci, HML or HMR, as donor. The mating type of a cell dictates which repository locus is used as donor, with a cells using HML and alpha cells using HMR. Thi...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Houston P,Simon PJ,Broach JR

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five bivariate distributions of wing dimensions of Drosophila melanogaster were measured, in flies 1) subjected to four defined environmental regimes during development, 2) taken directly from nature in seven U.S. states, 3) selected in ten populations for change in wing form, and 4) sampled from 21 long inbred wild-t...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Weber KE

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fixation probability is determined when population size and selection change over time and differs from Kimura's result, with long-term implications for a population. It is found that changes in population size are not equivalent to the corresponding changes in selection and can result in less drift than anticipat...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Waxman D

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two replications of a complete diallel cross experiment were performed among four partially inbred lines of mice. These inbred lines originated from a random-bred ICR strain and were produced by 12 generations of full sibbing (F congruent to 92%). Individual body weight was recorded for each animal at 12, 21, 42 and 5...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Jamison MG,White JM,Vinson WE,Hinkelmann K

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00