Identification of an alternative oxidase induction motif in the promoter region of the aod-1 gene in Neurospora crassa.

abstract：:A radiation-induced translocation, T(IIR----IIIL), has been shown to be nonreciprocal and to have most of IIR, including its terminus, attached uninverted to the terminus of IIIL.--Progeny with the IIR segment in duplicate, obtained from crosses of T(IIR----IIIL) to strains with a standard genome, were unstable at mit...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Daud F,Ortori GS,Roper JA

更新日期：1985-06-01 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：:Polyploidy has occurred throughout the evolutionary history of all eukaryotes and is extremely common in plants. Reunification of the evolutionarily divergent genomes in allopolyploids creates regulatory incompatibilities that must be reconciled. Here we report genomewide gene expression analysis of Arabidopsis synthe...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Wang J,Tian L,Lee HS,Wei NE,Jiang H,Watson B,Madlung A,Osborn TC,Doerge RW,Comai L,Chen ZJ

更新日期：2006-01-01 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：: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：:A model system for studying double-strand-break (DSB)-induced genetic recombination in vivo based on the ets1 segCDelta strain of bacteriophage T4 was developed. The ets1, a 66-bp DNA fragment of phage T2L containing the cleavage site for the T4 SegC site-specific endonuclease, was inserted into the proximal part of t...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Shcherbakov V,Granovsky I,Plugina L,Shcherbakova T,Sizova S,Pyatkov K,Shlyapnikov M,Shubina O

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic genomes are rich in transcription units encoding "long noncoding RNAs" (lncRNAs). The purpose of all this transcription is unclear since most lncRNAs are quickly targeted for destruction during synthesis or shortly thereafter. As debates continue over the functional significance of many specific lncRNAs, su...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Ard R,Allshire RC,Marquardt S

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrophoretic comparisons of 40S and 55S ribosomal subunit proteins from 18 strains of Drosophila melanogaster revealed the virtual absence of allelic variation. More detailed two-dimensional studies on the large subunit proteins in 6 of the strains demonstrated additional complexity but still no interstrain variati...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Berger EM,Weber L

更新日期：1974-12-01 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：:Pathogen resistance is an ecologically important phenotype increasingly well understood at the molecular genetic level. In this article, we examine levels of avrRpt2-dependent resistance and Rps2 locus DNA sequence variability in a worldwide sample of 27 accessions of Arabidopsis thaliana. The rooted parsimony tree of...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Mauricio R,Stahl EA,Korves T,Tian D,Kreitman M,Bergelson J

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A strain of Caenorhabditis elegans was constructed that permits selection of dominant or sex-linked mutations that transform XO animals (normally male) into fertile females, using a feminizing mutation, tra-2(e2046gf), which by itself does not sexually transform XO males. Twenty-three mutations were isolated after che...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Hodgkin J,Albertson DG

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The MITF protein is a member of the MYC family of basic helix-loop-helix leucine zipper (bHLH-Zip) transcription factors and is most closely related to the TFE3, TFEC, and TFEB proteins. In the mouse, MITF is required for the development of several different cell types, including the retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) c...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Hallsson JH,Haflidadóttir BS,Stivers C,Odenwald W,Arnheiter H,Pignoni F,Steingrímsson E

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Palindromic sequences have the potential to form hairpin or cruciform structures, which are putative substrates for several nucleases and mismatch repair enzymes. A genetic method was developed to detect such structures in vivo in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Using this method we previously showed that short ha...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Nag DK,Kurst A

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Associative overdominance, the fitness difference between heterozygotes and homozygotes at a neutral locus, is classically described using two categories of models: linkage disequilibrium in small populations or identity disequilibrium in infinite, partially selfing populations. In both cases, only equilibrium situati...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Bierne N,Tsitrone A,David P

更新日期：2000-08-01 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：:Double-strand DNA breaks can be repaired by any of several alternative mechanisms that differ greatly in the nature of the final repaired products. We used a reporter construct, designated "Repair reporter 3" (Rr3), to measure the relative usage of these pathways in Drosophila germ cells. The method works by creating ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Preston CR,Flores CC,Engels WR

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclin E together with its kinase partner Cdk2 is a critical regulator of entry into S phase. To identify novel genes that regulate the G1- to S-phase transition within a whole animal we made use of a hypomorphic cyclin E mutation, DmcycEJP, which results in a rough eye phenotype. We screened the X and third chromosom...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Brumby A,Secombe J,Horsfield J,Coombe M,Amin N,Coates D,Saint R,Richardson H

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circadian ( approximately 24 hr) rhythms of behavior and physiology are driven by molecular clocks that are endogenous to most organisms. The mechanisms underlying these clocks are remarkably conserved across evolution and typically consist of auto-regulatory loops in which specific proteins (clock proteins) rhythmica...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Zheng X,Sehgal A

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following the advent of a gene targeting technique in Drosophila, different methods have been developed to modify the Drosophila genome. The initial demonstration of gene targeting in flies used an ends-in method, which generates a duplication of the target locus. The duplicated locus can then be efficiently reduced t...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Xie HB,Golic KG

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mating behavior in adult male nematodes can be assayed by mating efficiency, i.e., the number of cross progeny sired by males under standard conditions. Mutant males from 220 strains, representing most of the known complementation groups of C. elegans, have been examined for mating efficiency and for anatomical abnorm...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Hodgkin J

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nontandem terminal chromosome duplications derived from N. crassa translocation T(I-->VI)NM103 give rise mitotically to some daughter nuclei which have become euploid by loss of one or the other of the two duplicated segments. Loss of the segment in normal sequence occurs as often as loss of the translocated segment. ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Turner BC

更新日期：1977-03-01 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 L-shaped distribution of estimated QTL effects (R(2)) has long been reported. We recently showed that a metabolic mechanism could account for this phenomenon. But other nonexclusive genetic or nongenetic causes may contribute to generate such a distribution. Using analysis and simulations of an additive genetic mo...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Bost B,de Vienne D,Hospital F,Moreau L,Dillmann C

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multilocus surveys of sequence variation can be used to identify targets of directional selection, which are expected to have reduced levels of variation. Following a population bottleneck, the signal of directional selection may be hard to detect because many loci may have low variation by chance and the frequency sp...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Hamblin MT,Casa AM,Sun H,Murray SC,Paterson AH,Aquadro CF,Kresovich S

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inbreeding depression, which refers to reduced fitness among offspring of related parents, has traditionally been studied using pedigrees. In practice, pedigree information is difficult to obtain, potentially unreliable, and rarely assessed for inbreeding arising from common ancestors who lived more than a few generat...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Keller MC,Visscher PM,Goddard ME

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleotide variation at the genomic region encompassing the odorant-binding protein genes OS-E and OS-F (OS region) was surveyed in two populations of Drosophila simulans, one from Europe and the other from Africa. We found that the European population shows an atypical and large haplotype structure, which extends thr...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Sánchez-Gracia A,Rozas J

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inbred strains of mice show differential skin inflammatory reactivity following the topical application of polycyclic hydrocarbons. Strains also differ in the extent to which hepatic aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase activity is induced by these compounds. Differential inflammatory response and hydroxylase inducibility are...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Thomas PE,Hutton JJ,Taylor BA

更新日期：1973-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are integral membrane proteins that initiate stimulus-dependent activation of cognate heterotrimeric G-proteins, triggering ensuing downstream cellular responses. Tight regulation of GPCR-evoked pathways is required because prolonged stimulation can be detrimental to an organism. St...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Alvaro CG,Aindow A,Thorner J

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The point mutation rate of phage PhiX174 was determined using the fluctuation test. After identifying the genetic changes associated with the selected phenotype, we obtained an estimate of 1.0x10(-6) substitutions per base per round of copying, which is consistent with Drake's rule (0.003 mutations per genome per roun...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Cuevas JM,Duffy S,Sanjuán R

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The resistance of rice to its bacterial blight pathogen Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo) has both qualitative and quantitative components that were investigated using three near-isogenic line sets for four resistance (R) genes (Xa4, xa5, xa13, and Xa21) and 12 Xoo races. Our results indicate that these two resistan...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Li ZK,Sanchez A,Angeles E,Singh S,Domingo J,Huang N,Khush GS

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00