Fixation probabilities when generation times are variable: the burst death model.

abstract：:The timing of lethality caused by homozygosity for a null allele of the epidermal growth factor receptor (Egfrtm1Mag) in mice is strongly dependent on genetic background. Initial attempts to genetically map background modifiers using Swiss-derived, outbred CD-1 mice were unsuccessful. To investigate the genetic archit...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Strunk KE,Amann V,Threadgill DW

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The percentage of crossovers is consistently higher in plants hypoploid for six B-A translocations when crossed as males than when crossed as females; in most instances, this excess of male crossing over exceeds that found in control crosses (involving normal chromosomes). Thus, there seems to be something about the h...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Robertson DS

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disease resistance to the bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato (Pst) in the cultivated tomato, Lycopersicon esculentum, and the closely related L. pimpinellifolium is triggered by the physical interaction between plant disease resistance protein, Pto, and the pathogen avirulence protein, AvrPto. To inves...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Rose LE,Langley CH,Bernal AJ,Michelmore RW

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetically marked P elements inserted into the subtelomeric satellites of Drosophila show repression and variegation of the reporter gene. One such white+ reporter, inserted between the subtelomeric satellite and the terminal HeT-A array in the left arm of chromosome 2 (2L), is sensitive to its context; changes in th...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Golubovsky MD,Konev AY,Walter MF,Biessmann H,Mason JM

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Self-incompatibility (SI) is a genetic system found in some hermaphrodite plants. Recognition of pollen by pistils expressing cognate specificities at two linked genes leads to rejection of self pollen and pollen from close relatives, i.e., to avoidance of self-fertilization and inbred matings, and thus increased outc...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Gervais CE,Castric V,Ressayre A,Billiard S

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The alpha-Amylase locus in Drosophila pseudoobscura is a multigene family of one, two or three copies on the third chromosome. The nucleotide sequences of the three Amylase genes from a single chromosome of D. pseudoobscura are presented. The three Amylase genes differ at about 0.5% of their nucleotides. Each gene has...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Brown CJ,Aquadro CF,Anderson WW

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Remarkably complex patterns of aneuploidy have been observed in the genomes of many eukaryotic cell types, ranging from brewing yeasts to tumor cells. Such aberrant karyotypes are generally thought to take shape progressively over many generations, but evidence also suggests that genomes may undergo faster modes of ev...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Heasley LR,Watson RA,Argueso JL

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Population structure leads to systematic patterns in measures of mean relatedness between individuals in large genomic data sets, which are often discovered and visualized using dimension reduction techniques such as principal component analysis (PCA). Mean relatedness is an average of the relationships across locus-s...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Li H,Ralph P

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transposable element activity is repressed in the germline in animals by PIWI-interacting RNAs (piRNAs), a class of small RNAs produced by genomic loci mostly composed of TE sequences. The mechanism of induction of piRNA production by these loci is still enigmatic. We have shown that, in Drosophila melanogaster, a clu...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Hermant C,Boivin A,Teysset L,Delmarre V,Asif-Laidin A,van den Beek M,Antoniewski C,Ronsseray S

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of transcription can be a complex process in which many cis- and trans-interactions determine the final pattern of expression. Among these interactions are trans-interactions mediated by the pairing of homologous chromosomes. These trans-effects are wide ranging, affecting gene regulation in many species an...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Lum TE,Merritt TJ

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strand misalignments at DNA repeats during replication are implicated in mutational hotspots. To study these events, we have generated strains carrying mutations in the Escherichia coli chromosomal lacZ gene that revert via deletion of a short duplicated sequence or by template switching within imperfect inverted repe...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Seier T,Padgett DR,Zilberberg G,Sutera VA Jr,Toha N,Lovett ST

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of a virus population to colonize a novel host is predicted to depend on the equilibrium frequency of potential colonists (i.e., genotypes capable of infecting the novel host) in the source population. In this study, we investigated the determinants of the equilibrium frequency of potential colonists in th...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Ferris MT,Joyce P,Burch CL

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous study, a mitochondrial mutant expressing a specific enzymatic deficiency in co-enzyme QH2-cytochrome c reductase was described (TZAGO-LOFF, FOURY and AKAI 1976). Analysis of the mitochondrially translated proteins revealed the absence in the mutant of the mitochondrial product corresponding to cytochrome...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Coruzzi G,Tzagoloff A

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The process designated RIP (repeat-induced point mutation) alters duplicated DNA sequences in the sexual cycle of Neurospora crassa. We tested whether non-Neurospora sequences are susceptible to RIP, explored the basis for the observed immunity to this process of a diverged tandem duplication that probably arose by a ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Foss EJ,Garrett PW,Kinsey JA,Selker EU

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the in vivo requirement of two recently identified nonessential components of the budding yeast anaphase-promoting complex, Swm1p and Mnd2p, as well as that of the previously identified subunit Apc9p. swm1Delta mutants exhibit synthetic lethality or conditional synthetic lethality with other APC/C sub...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Page AM,Aneliunas V,Lamb JR,Hieter P

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In experiments with directional selection on a quantitative character a "reversed response" to selection is occasionally observed, when selection of individuals for a higher (lower) value of the character results in a lower (higher) value of the character among their offspring. A sudden change in environments or rando...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Gimelfarb A

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to examine the operation of diversifying selection as the maintenance mechanism of excessive additive genetic variance for viability in southern populations in comparison with northern populations of Drosophila melanogaster, two sets of experiments were conducted using second chromosomes extracted from the Og...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Takano T,Kusakabe S,Mukai T

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How many genes contribute to reproductive isolation between closely related species? We determined the number of genes located in the 9D-12B region of the Drosophila mauritiana X chromosome that cause hybrid male sterility in a D. simulans background. Previous low resolution studies suggested that a single hybrid ster...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Davis AW,Wu CI

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All living organisms require nutrient minerals for growth and have developed mechanisms to acquire, utilize, and store nutrient minerals effectively. In the aqueous cellular environment, these elements exist as charged ions that, together with protons and hydroxide ions, facilitate biochemical reactions and establish ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Cyert MS,Philpott CC

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over one-third of human genome sequence is a product of non-LTR retrotransposition. The retrotransposon that currently drives this process in humans is the highly abundant LINE-1 (L1) element. Despite the ubiquitous nature of L1's in mammals, we still lack a complete mechanistic understanding of the L1 replication cyc...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Dong C,Poulter RT,Han JS

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Significant amounts of apoptosis take place during Drosophila development. The proapoptotic genes reaper (rpr), grim, and head involution defective (hid) are required for virtually all embryonic apoptosis. The proteins encoded by these genes share a short region of homology at their amino termini. The Drosophila IAP h...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Lisi S,Mazzon I,White K

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is an extensive organelle in neurons with important roles at synapses including the regulation of cytosolic Ca2+, neurotransmission, lipid metabolism, and membrane trafficking. Despite intriguing evidence for these crucial functions, how the presynaptic ER influences synaptic physiology ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Kikuma K,Li X,Kim D,Sutter D,Dickman DK

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TE146 is a giant transposon of Drosophila melanogaster. It carries two copies of the white and roughest genes, normally found on the X chromosome. The structure of this transposon has been studied at the molecular level. TE146 may transpose to new chromosome positions, excise and be lost from the genome or undergo int...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Lovering R,Harden N,Ashburner M

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genes with unstable transcripts often encode proteins that play important regulatory roles. ATL2 is a member of a multigene family coding highly related RING-H2 zinc-finger proteins that may function as E3 ubiquitin ligases. ATL2 mRNA accumulation occurs rapidly and transiently after incubation with elicitors of patho...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Serrano M,Guzmán P

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied a genome-wide set of single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) allele frequency measures for African-American, East Asian, and European-American samples. For this analysis we derived a simple, closed mathematical formulation for the spectrum of expected allele frequencies when the sampled populations have e...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Marth GT,Czabarka E,Murvai J,Sherry ST

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microarray experiments have been used recently in genetical genomics studies, as an additional tool to understand the genetic mechanisms governing variation in complex traits, such as for estimating heritabilities of mRNA transcript abundances, for mapping expression quantitative trait loci, and for inferring regulato...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Bueno Filho JS,Gilmour SG,Rosa GJ

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Use of the CRISPR/Cas9 RNA-guided endonuclease complex has recently enabled the generation of double-strand breaks virtually anywhere in the C. elegans genome. Here, we present an improved strategy that makes all steps in the genome editing process more efficient. We have created a toolkit of template-mediated repair ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Norris AD,Kim HM,Colaiácovo MP,Calarco JA

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The level of activity of the enzyme glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase was determinel in flies having seven different chromosomic constitutions. All those having an integral number of chromosomes [XAA, XXAA, XAAA, XXAAA, and XXXAAA (X=Xchromosome, A=set of autosomes)] were found to have similar units of enzyme activity...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Maroni G,Plaut W

更新日期：1973-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequences of Bronze2 (Bz2), a maize gene which is required for the synthesis of the purple pigment anthocyanin, have been cloned by combining the techniques of transposon tagging and differential hybridization. First, a mutable bz2 allele (bz2-mu1) was recovered from a Mutator line. The mutation was assumed to result ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： McLaughlin M,Walbot V

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping strategies can successfully identify major-effect loci, but often have poor success detecting loci with minor effects, potentially due to the confounding effects of major loci, epistasis, and limited sample sizes. To overcome such difficulties, we used a targeted backcross...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Sinha H,David L,Pascon RC,Clauder-Münster S,Krishnakumar S,Nguyen M,Shi G,Dean J,Davis RW,Oefner PJ,McCusker JH,Steinmetz LM

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00