Mitochondrial DNA variation within P-type cytoplasmic male sterility of Plantago lanceolata L.

abstract：:Elucidating barriers to gene flow is important for understanding the dynamics of speciation. Here we investigate pre- and post-zygotic mechanisms acting between the two hybridizing species of Atlantic eels: Anguilla anguilla and A. rostrata. Temporally varying hybridization was examined by analyzing 85 species-diagnos...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Jacobsen MW,Smedegaard L,Sørensen SR,Pujolar JM,Munk P,Jónsson B,Magnussen E,Hansen MM

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prevention of malaria transmission throughout much of Africa is dependent on bednets that are impregnated with pyrethroid insecticides. Anopheles arabiensis is the major malaria vector in Chad and efforts to control this vector are threatened by the emergence of pyrethroid resistance. WHO bioassays revealed that An. a...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Witzig C,Parry M,Morgan JC,Irving H,Steven A,Cuamba N,Kerah-Hinzoumbé C,Ranson H,Wondji CS

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The quantitative genetic properties are derived for the bulk F2 originating from random fertilization (RF) amongst hybrid (F1) individuals. Only its mean appears to have been derived previously, and that definition is confirmed (by another method). New general equations are found also for all genotype frequencies, all...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Gordon IL

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a new model for mating system analysis, which attempts to distinguish among alternative modes of self-oriented mating within populations. This model jointly estimates the rates of outcrossing, selfing, automixis and apomixis, through the use of information in the family structure given by dominant ge...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Thompson SL,Ritland K

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ecological theory of adaptive radiation predicts that the evolution of phenotypic diversity within species is generated by divergent natural selection arising from different environments and competition between species. Genetic connectivity among populations is likely also to have an important role in both the ori...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Kapralova KH,Morrissey MB,Kristjánsson BK,Olafsdóttir GÁ,Snorrason SS,Ferguson MM

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Assessing in wild populations how fitness is impacted by inbreeding and genetic drift is a major goal for conservation biology. An approach to measure the detrimental effects of inbreeding on fitness is to estimate correlations between molecular variation and phenotypic performances within and among populations. Our s...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Luquet E,Léna JP,David P,Prunier J,Joly P,Lengagne T,Perrin N,Plénet S

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 'Hill-Robertson (HR) effect' describes that linkage between sites under selection will reduce the overall effectiveness of selection in finite populations. Here we discuss the major concepts associated with the HR effect and present results of computer simulations focusing on the linkage effects generated by multi...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Comeron JM,Williford A,Kliman RM

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Theory presented in a previous paper has been used to provide a description of the responses expected from selection in two or more generations of a selfing series. Optimum two-stages and multi-stage selection programmes are described, for a limited set of circumstances, and compared with the single-stage designs desc...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Cornish MA

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a study of fine-scale spatial genetic structure (SGS) and assess the impact of seed and pollen dispersal on the pattern of genetic diversity in the predominantly selfing Hordeum spontaneum. The study included (1) direct measurement of dispersal in a controlled environment, and (2) analyses of SGS and estima...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Volis S,Zaretsky M,Shulgina I

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent genetic studies have shown that introgression rates among loci may greatly vary according to their location in the genome. In particular, several cases of mito-nuclear discordances have been reported for a wide range of organisms. In the present study, we examine the causes of discordance between mitochondrial ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Pons JM,Sonsthagen S,Dove C,Crochet PA

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Africanization of the honeybee (Apis mellifera) in South America is one of the most spectacular examples of biological invasions. In this study, we analyzed the Africanization process in Central Mexico along an altitudinal transect from 72 to 2800 m, using both mitochondrial and nuclear DNA markers. The mitochondr...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Kraus FB,Franck P,Vandame R

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:P elements, both complete and incomplete, contain a left and right end, normally depicted as pointing away from each other. Here, we examine the properties of P elements that may be described as 're-arranged elements' or 'inside-out elements', containing inverted ends. Two such structures exist, having either ends poi...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Liang X,Sved JA

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated genetic diversity among and within natural populations of Asian common wild rice, Oryza rufipogon, from three different classes of data: quantitative traits, allozymes, and restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs). The seven populations examined showed polymorphism to varying degrees. The amou...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Cai HW,Wang XK,Morishima H

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analysis was performed to characterize the genetic diversity of Austropotamobius pallipes, a threatened freshwater crayfish native to Europe. Four decamer primers which generated six unambiguous polymorphic bands were used to analyse crayfish from 21 populations sampled in the m...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Gouin N,Grandjean F,Bouchon D,Reynolds JD,Souty-Grosset C

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluctuating asymmetry (FA) has been proposed as a tool to measure levels of stress experienced by populations of organisms during development. To be of value as a bio-marker to highlight conditions at particular sites, it is important that variation in FA is due to environmental (eg pollution) variation and not geneti...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Mpho M,Callaghan A,Holloway GJ

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here I develop the idea that ubiquitous harmful genome-wide mutation with local differentiation favors dispersal, even though migration reduces average fitness. Historical contingency of the mutational process means that demes (sub-populations) differentiate from one another. Deleterious or lethal partially recessive ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Morgan MT

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Connectivity is widely recognized as an important component in developing effective management and conservation strategies. Although managers are generally most interested in demographic, rather than genetic connectivity, new analytic approaches are able to provide estimates of both demographic and genetic connectivit...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Thomas L,Bell JJ

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The long generation time and large effective size of widespread forest tree species can result in slow evolutionary rate and incomplete lineage sorting, complicating species delimitation. We addressed this issue with the African timber tree genus Milicia that comprises two morphologically similar and often confounded ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Daïnou K,Mahy G,Duminil J,Dick CW,Doucet JL,Donkpégan AS,Pluijgers M,Sinsin B,Lejeune P,Hardy OJ

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic variation was studied in quantitative traits and molecular markers in six natural Scandinavian populations of Arabidopsis thaliana. Only two of the populations had several molecular marker haplotypes and significant between-family variance components in quantitative traits. There was no genetic variation in th...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Kuittinen H,Mattila A,Savolainen O

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conditional average frequency of rare alleles has been shown in simulations to provide a simple and robust estimator of the number of individuals exchanged between local populations in an island model (Nm). This statistic is defined as the average frequency of an allele in those samples in which the allele is pres...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Barton NH,Slatkin M

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Local patterns of genetic variation were analysed in the land snail Helix aspersa for 32 populations sampled within a patchy agricultural landscape: the polders of the Bay of Mont-Saint-Michel (France). This investigation examined the allele frequencies at four enzymatic markers and five microsatellite loci through th...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Arnaud JF,Madec L,Guiller A,Deunff J

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Latitudinal variation in thorax and wing size traits was studied in wild-caught flies of the cactophilic Drosophila species, D. aldrichi and D. buzzatii, and their laboratory-reared progeny. The flies originated from five populations in Queensland, Australia, spanning an 800-km transect. The laboratory flies were rear...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Loeschcke V,Bundgaard J,Barker JS

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effective population size over a generation (Ne) or over a reproductive cycle (Nb) and the adult census size (Nc) are important parameters in both conservation and evolutionary biology. Ne provides information regarding the rate of loss of genetic diversity and can be tracked back in time to infer demographic history ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Ferchaud AL,Perrier C,April J,Hernandez C,Dionne M,Bernatchez L

更新日期：2016-10-01 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：:Flies from a wild type strain of Drosophila melanogaster, previously kept at 25 degrees C, were reared at either 20, 25 or 29 degrees C. As expected, developmental time and adult body size decreased with increasing temperature. Adult longevity of flies reared at 25 degrees C was slightly greater than that of flies rai...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Zwaan BJ,Bijlsma R,Hoekstra RF

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD) was first reported in 1966 in an African lizard. It has since been shown that TSD occurs in some fish, several lizards, tuataras, numerous turtles and all crocodilians. Extreme temperatures can also cause sex reversal in several amphibians and lizards with genotypic sex de...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Rhen T,Schroeder A,Sakata JT,Huang V,Crews D

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hybridization between wild and domestic bovine species occurs worldwide either spontaneously or by organized crossing. We have analysed hybridization of banteng (Bos javanicus) and zebu (Bos indicus) in south-east Asian cattle using mitochondrial DNA (PCR-RFLP and sequencing), AFLP, satellite fragment length polymorph...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Nijman IJ,Otsen M,Verkaar EL,de Ruijter C,Hanekamp E,Ochieng JW,Shamshad S,Rege JE,Hanotte O,Barwegen MW,Sulawati T,Lenstra JA

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several classes of models have been suggested to explain how natural selection can favour non-zero recombination. Directional and fluctuating selection, abiotic and biotic, and selection against harmful mutations seem to be the most plausible factors, but little has been done to test the problem experimentally. Here w...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Korol AB,Iliadi KG

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Variations observed in parasite virulence and host resistance may be the outcome of coevolutionary processes. Recent theoretical developments have led to a 'geographic mosaic theory' of coevolution according to which there are some localities where reciprocal selection occurs (hot spots) and others where it is strongl...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Dupas S,Carton Y,Poiriè M

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A temporal analysis of a hybrid zone between chromosomal races of Mus musculus domesticus was performed to evaluate its dynamics over a 20-year period. The transect chosen was one previously analysed by Spirito et al. (1980) across the hycbrid zone between the chromosomal race CD 2n=22 (central Italy) and the surround...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Castiglia R,Capanna E

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00