The hitchhiking effect of an autosomal meiotic drive gene.

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：:Life-history traits or "fitness components"-such as age and size at maturity, fecundity and fertility, age-specific rates of survival, and life span-are the major phenotypic determinants of Darwinian fitness. Analyzing the evolution and genetics of these phenotypic targets of selection is central to our understanding ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Flatt T

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drosophila melanogaster X chromosomes were mutagenized by feeding males sucrose solutions containing ethyl methanesulfonate (EMS); the concentrations of EMS in the food were 2.5 mM, 5.0 mM, and 10.0 mM. Chromosomes were exposed to the mutagen up to three times by treating males in succeeding generations. After treatme...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Mitchell JA

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An association was found earlier between the Ep(1) gene locus coding for an endopeptidase and the endosperm color gene Y(1) on chromosome 6 of Zea mays. By employing primary trisomics we have unequivocally placed the Ep(1) gene on chromosome 6, closely linked to the Y(1) locus. Additionally we describe new alleles at ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Nielsen G,Scandalios JG

更新日期：1974-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mapping of expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) is a powerful means for elucidating the genetic architecture of gene regulation. Yet, eQTL mapping has not been applied toward investigating the regulation architecture of genes involved in the process of population divergence, ultimately leading to speciation event...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Derome N,Bougas B,Rogers SM,Whiteley AR,Labbe A,Laroche J,Bernatchez L

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A genetic model with additive-dominance effects and genotype x environment interactions is presented for quantitative traits with time-dependent measures. The genetic model for phenotypic means at time t conditional on phenotypic means measured at previous time (t-1) is defined. Statistical methods are proposed for an...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Zhu J

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the Brassicaceae, self-vs. nonself-recognition in self-incompatibility is controlled by sporophytic S-alleles. Haplotypes specifying both SRK (S-receptor kinase) and SLG (S-locus glycoprotein) are considered to play an important role in the recognition reactions. We compared the nucleotide sequences of SRK9(Bc) and...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Hinata K,Watanabe M,Yamakawa S,Satta Y,Isogai A

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extensive length polymorphism and heteroplasmy (multiple forms within an individual) of the D-loop region are observed in mitochondrial DNA of the white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus). The nucleotide sequence of this region, for both a short and a long form, shows that the differences are due to variable numbers o...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Buroker NE,Brown JR,Gilbert TA,O'Hara PJ,Beckenbach AT,Thomas WK,Smith MJ

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The allozymic variation at at the esterase-6 locus examined in fourteen samples of natural populations of Drosophila simulans collected in two different localities. The samples were collected from different species of fruits in the two localities and from banana baits located some meters apart from the fruits. The ana...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： de Albuquerque CM,Napp M

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scans of the human genome have identified many loci as potential targets of recent selection, but exploration of these candidates is required to verify the accuracy of genomewide scans and clarify the importance of adaptive evolution in recent human history. We present analyses of one such candidate, enamelin, whose p...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Kelley JL,Swanson WJ

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have analyzed two variants of Drosophila melanogaster (RS and RE) which lead to the dual phenotype of elevated DDC activity and increased resistance to dietary alpha-methyldopa relative to Oregon-R controls. Both phenotypes show tight genetic linkage to the dopa decarboxylase, Ddc, and l(2)amd genes (i.e., less tha...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Marsh JL,Wright TR

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Arabidopsis short integuments 2-1 (sin2-1) mutant produces ovules with short integuments due to early cessation of cell division in these structures. SIN2 was isolated and encodes a putative GTPase sharing features found in the novel DAR GTPase family. DAR proteins share a signature DAR motif and a unique arrangem...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Hill TA,Broadhvest J,Kuzoff RK,Gasser CS

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phylogenetic analyses of non-LTR retrotransposons suggest that all elements can be divided into 11 lineages. The 3 oldest lineages show target site specificity for unique locations in the genome and encode an endonuclease with an active site similar to certain restriction enzymes. The more "modern" non-LTR lineages po...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Malik HS,Eickbush TH

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data are presented concerning the gene arrangements in both arms of the X-chromosome of Drosophila robusta in eight altitudinal transects. The major change appears to be the increase of gene arrangement XL-1 (and decrease in XL, sometimes also XL-2) with increasing altitude. In each transect only one combination of XL...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Levitan M

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type II topoisomerases are essential ATP-dependent homodimeric enzymes required for transcription, replication, and chromosome segregation. These proteins alter DNA topology by generating transient enzyme-linked double-strand breaks for passage of one DNA strand through another. The central role of type II topoisomera...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Hohl AM,Thompson M,Soshnev AA,Wu J,Morris J,Hsieh TS,Wu CT,Geyer PK

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to characterize two mutator stocks of yeast which were induced and selected on the basis of high spontaneous reversion rates of the suppressible "ochre" nonsense allele lys1-1. In the mutator stock VA-3, a single mutation, designated mut1-1, is responsible for the increase in the reversio...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Gottlieb DJ,von Borstel RC

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paramecium has long been a model eukaryote. The sequence of the Paramecium tetraurelia genome reveals a history of three successive whole-genome duplications (WGDs), and the sequences of P. biaurelia and P. sexaurelia suggest that these WGDs are shared by all members of the aurelia species complex. Here, we present th...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： McGrath CL,Gout JF,Doak TG,Yanagi A,Lynch M

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many aspects of plant biology depend on the ubiquitin proteasome system for degradation of regulatory proteins. Ubiquitin E3 ligases confer substrate specificity in this pathway, and SCF-type ligases comprise a major class of E3s. SCF ligases have four subunits: SKP1, CUL1, RBX1, and an F-box protein for substrate rec...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Gilkerson J,Hu J,Brown J,Jones A,Sun TP,Callis J

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Though much has been learned about the process of ovarian follicle maturation through studies of oogenesis in both vertebrate and invertebrate systems, less is known about how follicles form initially. In Drosophila, two somatic follicle stem cells (FSCs) in each ovariole give rise to all polar cells, stalk cells, and...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Nystul T,Spradling A

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural ganglia of wild type third-instar larvae of Drosophila melanogaster were incubated for 13 hours at various concentrations of BUdR (1, 3, 9, 27 micrograms/ml). Metaphases were collected with colchicine, stained with Hoechst 33258, and scored under a fluorescence microscope. Metaphases in which the sister chromat...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Gatti M,Santini G,Pimpinelli S,Olivieri G

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NudC encodes a protein of unknown biochemical function that is required for nuclear migration. In an attempt to define its function by identifying interacting proteins, a screen for extragenic suppressors of the temperature-sensitive nudC3 mutation was undertaken that identified nine snc genes. Here we demonstrate tha...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Chiu YH,Morris NR

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A likelihood ratio test is presented for comparing rates of evolutionary change in the paths of descent leading to two species. The test is compared to previous relative rate tests based on variances of estimated numbers of base substitutions. The likelihood approach allows for different transversion and transition ra...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Muse SV,Weir BS

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:COTRANS is a program for analyzing cotransduction data. It calculates distances from pairwise cotransduction frequencies, computes crossovers required to obtain each observed recombinant class, and applies rules to draw conclusions about order. The rules are based on the correlation between the frequency of the classe...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Berlyn MB,Letovsky S

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A lethal locus (l(2)br7;35B6-10), near Adh on chromosome arm 2L of D. melanogaster, is identified with Plunkett's dominant suppressor of Hairless (H). Of eight new alleles, seven act as dominant suppressors of H, the eighth is a dominant enhancer of H. One of the suppressor alleles is both a leaky lethal and a weak s...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Ashburner M

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We study a situation that arises in the somatic evolution of cancer. Consider a finite population of replicating cells and a sequence of mutations: type 0 can mutate to type 1, which can mutate to type 2. There is no back mutation. We start with a homogeneous population of type 0. Mutants of type 1 emerge and either b...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Iwasa Y,Michor F,Nowak MA

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in genes of Saccharomyces cerevisiae that code for proteins that interact with beta-tubulin were sought by screening for unlinked mutations that fail to complement mutations in the single beta-tubulin-encoding gene (TUB2). Among the first three noncomplementing mutations examined, two are linked to TUB2 whil...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Stearns T,Botstein D

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brassica self-incompatibility (SI) is controlled by SLG and SRK expressed in the stigma and by SP11/SCR expressed in the anther. We determined the sequences of the S domains of 36 SRK alleles, 13 SLG alleles, and 14 SP11 alleles from Brassica oleracea and B. rapa. We found three S haplotypes lacking SLG genes in B. ra...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Sato K,Nishio T,Kimura R,Kusaba M,Suzuki T,Hatakeyama K,Ockendon DJ,Satta Y

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of at least ten mouse LDH-A pseudogenes was demonstrated in the genomic blot analysis, and four different processed pseudogenes have thus far been isolated and characterized. In this report, the nucleotide sequences to two different mouse lactate dehydrogenase-A processed pseudogenes, M11 and M14, were de...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Fukasawa KM,Tanimura M,Sakai I,Sharief FS,Chung FZ,Li SS

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We show that MED15, a key component of the transcription complex Mediator, lies within the nonrecombining segment of nascent sex chromosomes in the male-heterogametic Hyla arborea. Both X and Y alleles are expressed during embryonic development and differ by three frame-preserving indels (eight amino acids in total) w...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Niculita-Hirzel H,Stöck M,Perrin N

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant breeders make selection decisions based on multiple traits, such as yield, plant height, flowering time, and disease resistance. A commonly used approach in multi-trait genomic selection is index selection, which assigns weights to different traits relative to their economic importance. However, classical index ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Moeinizade S,Kusmec A,Hu G,Wang L,Schnable PS

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00