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abstract：:The effect of genetic hitchhiking on neutral variation is analyzed in subdivided populations with differentiated demes. After fixation of a favorable mutation, the consequences on particular subpopulations can be radically different. In the subpopulation where the mutation first appeared by mutation, variation at link...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Santiago E,Caballero A

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reciprocal recurrent selection (RRS), which assumes overdominant loci to be important, alters two genetically different populations to improve their crossbred mean. Individual plants from two populations (A and B) are selfed and also crossed with plants from the reciprocal female tester population (B and A, respective...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Moreno-Gonzalez J,Grossman M

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For more than 60 years, evolutionary cytogeneticists have been using naturally occurring chromosomal inversions to infer phylogenetic histories, especially in insects with polytene chromosomes. The validity of this method is predicated on the assumption that inversions arise only once in the history of a lineage, so t...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Caccone A,Min GS,Powell JR

更新日期：1998-10-01 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：:Cell-cell fusion is essential for a variety of developmental steps in many eukaryotic organisms, during both fertilization and vegetative cell growth. Although the molecular mechanisms associated with intracellular membrane fusion are well characterized, the molecular mechanisms of plasma membrane merger between cells...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Fleissner A,Diamond S,Glass NL

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The SMK1 mitogen-activated protein kinase is required for spore morphogenesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. In contrast to the multiple aberrant spore wall assembly patterns seen even within a single smk1 null ascus, different smk1 missense mutants block in a coordinated fashion at intermediate stages. One smk1 mutant ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Wagner M,Briza P,Pierce M,Winter E

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various management strategies aim at maintaining pesticide resistance frequency under a threshold value by taking advantage of the benefit of the fitness penalty (the cost) expressed by the resistance allele outside the treated area or during the pesticide selection "off years." One method to estimate a fitness cost i...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Roux F,Giancola S,Durand S,Reboud X

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dosage compensation refers to the equal expression of X-linked genes despite the difference in copy number between the two sexes. The male-specific lethal (MSL) complex is concentrated on the X chromosome in males. A gene expression assay for embryos was developed to examine the function of this complex. In mutant mal...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Bhadra MP,Bhadra U,Kundu J,Birchler JA

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventeen lines, each homozygous for a different X chromosome but all with a common autosomal genetic blackground, were constructed and assayed for abdominal bristle number to determine whether dosage compensation operates for sex-linked genes affecting this character. --The regression coefficient of male mean on fema...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Frankham R

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interchromosomal duplications are especially important for the study of X-linked genes. Males inheriting a mutation in a vital X-linked gene cannot survive unless there is a wild-type copy of the gene duplicated elsewhere in the genome. Rescuing the lethality of an X-linked mutation with a duplication allows the mutat...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Cook RK,Deal ME,Deal JA,Garton RD,Brown CA,Ward ME,Andrade RS,Spana EP,Kaufman TC,Cook KR

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Positive selection in genes and genomes can point to the evolutionary basis for differences among species and among races within a species. The detection of positive selection can also help identify functionally important protein regions and thus guide protein engineering. Many existing tests for positive selection ar...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Wagner A

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella typhimurium can normally use glycine as a serine source to support the growth of serine auxotrophs. This reaction was presumed to occur by the reversible activity of the enzyme, serine transhydroxymethylase (E. C. 2. 1. 2. 1; L-serine: tetrahydrofolic-5, 10 transhydroxymethylase), which is responsible for g...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Stauffer GV,Brenchley JE

更新日期：1974-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The RecQ helicase family is critical during DNA damage repair, and mutations in these proteins are associated with Bloom, Werner, or Rothmund-Thompson syndromes in humans, leading to cancer predisposition and/or premature aging. In the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, mutations in the RecQ homolog, SGS1, phenoc...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Bernstein KA,Mimitou EP,Mihalevic MJ,Chen H,Sunjaveric I,Symington LS,Rothstein R

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptional silencing involves the formation of specialized repressive chromatin structures. Previous studies have shown that the histone H3-H4 chaperone known as chromatin assembly factor 1 (CAF-1) contributes to transcriptional silencing in yeast, although the molecular basis for this was unknown. In this work w...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Tamburini BA,Carson JJ,Linger JG,Tyler JK

更新日期：2006-06-01 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：:Key steps of essential metabolic pathways are housed in plant peroxisomes. We conducted a microscopy-based screen for anomalous distribution of peroxisomally targeted fluorescence in Arabidopsis thaliana This screen uncovered 34 novel alleles in 15 genes affecting oil body mobilization, fatty acid β-oxidation, the gly...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Rinaldi MA,Patel AB,Park J,Lee K,Strader LC,Bartel B

更新日期：2016-11-01 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 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：:The region containing subdivisions 93C, 93D and 93E on chromosome 3 of Drosophila melanogaster has been screened for visible and lethal mutations. Treatment with three mutagens, gamma irradiation, ethyl methanesulfonate and diepoxybutane, has produced mutations that fall into 20 complementation groups, including the p...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Mohler J,Pardue ML

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hormonal, genetic, and environmental factors play major roles in the complex etiology of breast cancer. When treated continuously with 17beta-estradiol (E2), the ACI rat exhibits a genetically conferred propensity to develop mammary cancer. The susceptibility of the ACI rat to E2-induced mammary cancer appears to segr...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Gould KA,Tochacek M,Schaffer BS,Reindl TM,Murrin CR,Lachel CM,VanderWoude EA,Pennington KL,Flood LA,Bynote KK,Meza JL,Newton MA,Shull JD

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many heterogametic organisms adjust sex chromosome expression to accommodate differences in gene dosage. This requires selective recruitment of regulatory factors to the modulated chromosome. How these factors are localized to a chromosome with requisite accuracy is poorly understood. Drosophila melanogaster males inc...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Deshpande N,Meller VH

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The polarized partitioning of proteins in cells underlies asymmetric cell division, which is an important driver of development and cellular diversity. The budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae divides asymmetrically, like many other cells, to generate two distinct progeny cells. A well-known example of an asymmetric...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Herrero E,Stinus S,Bellows E,Berry LK,Wood H,Thorpe PH

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurons and glia display remarkable morphological plasticity, and remodeling of glia may facilitate neuronal shape changes. The molecular basis and control of glial shape changes is not well understood. In response to environmental stress, the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans enters an alternative developmental state, ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Procko C,Lu Y,Shaham S

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Under certain environmental conditions, naturally transforming bacteria are induced to pick up DNA released into the environment by other cells of the same or closely related species and, by homologous recombination, integrate that DNA into their chromosome. The selective pressures responsible for the evolution and ma...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Mongold JA

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitomycin C (MMC) is a genotoxic agent that induces DNA cross-links, DNA alkylation, and the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS). MMC induces the SOS response and RpoS regulons in Escherichia coli SOS-encoded functions are required for DNA repair, whereas the RpoS regulon is typically induced by metabolic stre...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Dapa T,Fleurier S,Bredeche MF,Matic I

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sex differences occur in most species and affect a variety of biological traits including morphology, behavior, and life history. The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans exists as a population of self-fertile hermaphrodites with occasional males, which differ anatomically and behaviorally from hermaphrodites. Here we show...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： van den Berg MC,Woerlee JZ,Ma H,May RC

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retroviruses and their relatives, the long terminal repeat (LTR) retrotransposons, carry out complex life cycles within the cells of their hosts. We have exploited a collection of gene deletion mutants developed by the Saccharomyces Genome Deletion Project to perform a functional genomics screen for host factors that ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Griffith JL,Coleman LE,Raymond AS,Goodson SG,Pittard WS,Tsui C,Devine SE

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maintenance of proper neuronal excitability is vital to nervous system function and normal behavior. A subset of Drosophila mutants that exhibit altered behavior also exhibit defective motor neuron excitability, which can be monitored with electrophysiological methods. One such mutant is the P-element insertion mutant...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Schweers BA,Walters KJ,Stern M

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A multi-locus model for complete positive assortative mating is discussed. For a two-locus model, if the gene frequencies for the two loci are different, as they are likely to be, it is shown that in equilibrium the population is not composed of only two homozygous types, as is usually thought. The limiting distributi...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Ghai GL

更新日期：1973-12-01 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