No patrigenes required for femaleness in the haplodiploid wasp Nasonia vitripennis.

abstract：:Protein E, the lysis protein of bacteriophage phiX174, is a specific inhibitor of MraY, the phospho-MurNAc-pentapeptide translocase that catalyzes the synthesis of lipid I in the conserved pathway for peptidoglycan biosynthesis. The original evidence for this inhibition was the isolation of two spontaneous E-resistanc...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Zheng Y,Struck DK,Bernhardt TG,Young R

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acrylamide gel electrophoresis was performed on the enzyme xanthine dehydrogenase in sixty isochromosomal lines of Drosophila persimilis from three geographic populations. Sequential electrophoretic analysis using varied gel concentrations and buffers revealed twenty-three alleles in this species where only five had b...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Coyne JA

更新日期：1976-11-01 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：:The Polymerase Associated Factor 1 complex (Paf1C) is a multifunctional regulator of eukaryotic gene expression important for the coordination of transcription with chromatin modification and post-transcriptional processes. In this study, we investigated the extent to which the functions of Paf1C combine to regulate t...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Ellison MA,Lederer AR,Warner MH,Mavrich TN,Raupach EA,Heisler LE,Nislow C,Lee MT,Arndt KM

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the sensory system of C. elegans, the candidate odorant receptor gene str-2 is strongly expressed in one of the two AWC neurons and weakly in both ASI neurons. Asymmetric AWC expression results from suppression of str-2 expression by a Ca2+/MAPK signaling pathway in one of the AWC neurons early in development. Here...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Lans H,Jansen G

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The maize ligule is an adaxial membranous structure on the leaf that develops at the boundary of the sheath and blade. The ligule and the associated auricle are dispensable structures, amenable to genetic manipulation. We present here a genetic analysis of liguleless1 (lg1) and liguleless2 (lg2), the two genes known t...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Harper L,Freeling M

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cosQ site of bacteriophage lambda is required for DNA packaging termination. Previous studies have shown that cosQ mutations can be suppressed in three ways: by a local suppressor within cosQ, an increase in the length of the lambda chromosome, and missense mutations affecting the prohead's portal protein, gpB. In...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Wieczorek DJ,Didion L,Feiss M

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animal microRNAs (miRNA) are implicated in the control of nearly all cellular functions. Due to high sequence redundancy within the miRNA gene pool, loss of most of these 21- to 24-bp long RNAs individually does not cause a phenotype. Thus, only very few miRNAs have been associated with clear functional roles. We cons...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Schertel C,Rutishauser T,Förstemann K,Basler K

更新日期：2012-12-01 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：:Different electrophoretic alleles of amylase show associations with particular chromosome 3 inversions in D. pseudoobscura and D. persimilis. Relative adult amylase activities were compared in 37, 37 and 10 strains of D. pseudoobscura, D. persimilis and D. miranda, respectively. Strains carrying the same electrophoret...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Norman RA,Prakash S

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differential expression of mRNA among animal strains is one of the mechanisms for their diversity. cDNA microarray analysis of the prostates of BUF/Nac (BUF) and ACI/N (ACI) rats, which show different susceptibility to prostate cancers, found 195 differentially expressed genes. To identify loci that control differenti...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Yamashita S,Wakazono K,Nomoto T,Tsujino Y,Kuramoto T,Ushijima T

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously a deletion in mouse chromosome 17, T(22H), was shown to behave like a t allele of the t complex distorter gene Tcd1, and this was attributed to deletion of this locus. Seven further deletions are studied here, with the aim of narrowing the critical region in which Tcd1 must lie. One deletion, T(30H), togeth...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Lyon MF,Schimenti JC,Evans EP

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selective sweeps are typically associated with a local reduction of genetic diversity around the adaptive site. However, selective sweeps can also quickly carry neutral mutations to observable population frequencies if they arise early in a sweep and hitchhike with the adaptive allele. We show that the interplay betwe...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Messer PW,Neher RA

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the regulation of Drosophila melanogaster behavior by biogenic amines, we have exploited the broad requirement of the vesicular monoamine transporter (VMAT) for the vesicular storage and exocytotic release of all monoamine neurotransmitters. We used the Drosophila VMAT (dVMAT) null mutant to globally ab...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Chen A,Ng F,Lebestky T,Grygoruk A,Djapri C,Lawal HO,Zaveri HA,Mehanzel F,Najibi R,Seidman G,Murphy NP,Kelly RL,Ackerson LC,Maidment NT,Jackson FR,Krantz DE

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following transformation of a Drosophila melanogaster true M strain with an autonomous P element, six lines were established and monitored for their molecular and phenotypic properties during a 4-yr period. The number of P elements increased with time in all the lines but the rate of increase differed among lines. Fur...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Daniels SB,Clark SH,Kidwell MG,Chovnick A

更新日期：1987-04-01 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：:We have identified two Saccharomyces cerevisiae genes that, in high copy, confer resistance to Kluyveromyces lactis zymocin, an inhibitor that blocks cells in the G(1) phase of the cell cycle prior to budding and DNA replication. One gene (GRX3) encodes a glutaredoxin and is likely to act at the level of zymocin entry...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Jablonowski D,Butler AR,Fichtner L,Gardiner D,Schaffrath R,Stark MJ

更新日期：2001-12-01 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：:Studying phage codon adaptation is important not only for understanding the process of translation elongation, but also for reengineering phages for medical and industrial purposes. To evaluate the effect of mutation and selection on phage codon usage, we developed an index to measure selection imposed by host transla...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Chithambaram S,Prabhakaran R,Xia X

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many of the transcription factors and target genes that pattern the developing adult remain unknown. In the present study, we find that an ortholog of the poorly understood transcription factor, glucose transporter (GLUT4) enhancer factor (Glut4EF, GEF) [also known as the Huntington's disease gene regulatory region-bi...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Yazdani U,Huang Z,Terman JR

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inbred mouse strain, C57BL/6J, was derived from mice of the Mus musculus complex. C57BL/6J can be crossed in the laboratory with a closely related mouse species, M. spretus to produce fertile offspring; however there has been no previous evidence of gene flow between M. spretus and M. musculus in nature. Analysis ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Rikke BA,Zhao Y,Daggett LP,Reyes R,Hardies SC

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In eukaryotic cells, checkpoint pathways arrest cell-cycle progression if a particular event has failed to complete appropriately or if an important intracellular structure is defective or damaged. Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains that lack the SFP1 gene fail to arrest at the G2 DNA-damage checkpoint in response to ge...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Xu Z,Norris D

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Persistence time of a mutant allele, the expected number of generations before its elimination from the population, can be estimated as the ratio of the number of segregating mutations per individual over the mutation rate per generation. We screened two natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster for mutations cau...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Yampolsky LY,Allen C,Shabalina SA,Kondrashov AS

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mendelian loci that control the expression levels of transcripts are called expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL). When mapping eQTL, we often deal with thousands of expression traits simultaneously, which complicates the statistical model and data analysis. Two simple approaches may be taken in eQTL analysis: (1)...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Jia Z,Xu S

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nuclear aod-1 gene of Neurospora crassa encodes the alternative oxidase and is induced when the standard cytochrome-mediated respiratory chain of mitochondria is inhibited. To study elements of the pathway responsible for alternative oxidase induction, we generated a series of mutations in the region upstream from...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Chae MS,Lin CC,Kessler KE,Nargang CE,Tanton LL,Hahn LB,Nargang FE

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Timely spindle disassembly is essential for coordination of mitotic exit with cytokinesis. In the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the microtubule-associated protein She1 functions in one of at least three parallel pathways that promote spindle disassembly. She1 phosphorylation by the Aurora kinase Ipl1 facilit...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Pigula A,Drubin DG,Barnes G

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the effect of a single variant repeat on the stability of a 51-base pair (bp) microsatellite (poly GT). We found that the insertion stabilizes the microsatellite about fivefold in wild-type strains. The stabilizing effect of the variant base was also observed in strains with mutations in the DNA mismatch r...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Petes TD,Greenwell PW,Dominska M

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a two-layer hidden Markov model to detect the structure of haplotypes for unrelated individuals. This allows us to model two scales of linkage disequilibrium (one within a group of haplotypes and one between groups), thereby taking advantage of rich haplotype information to infer local ancestry of admixed i...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Guan Y

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) are secreted signaling molecules that control important developmental events in many different organisms. Previous studies have shown that BMPs are expressed at the earliest stages of skeletal development, and are required for formation of specific skeletal features, strongly suggest...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： DiLeone RJ,Russell LB,Kingsley DM

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The degree to which genomic architecture varies across space and time is central to the evolution of genomes in response to natural selection. Bulked-segregant mapping combined with pooled sequencing provides an efficient means to estimate the effect of genetic variants on quantitative traits. We develop a novel likel...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Monnahan PJ,Kelly JK

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00