Invasion success of the bumblebee, Bombus terrestris, despite a drastic genetic bottleneck.

abstract：:Cuticular colour in the mealworm beetle (Tenebrio molitor) is a quantitative trait, varying from tan to black. Population level variation in cuticular colour has been linked to pathogen resistance in this species and in several other insects: darker individuals are more resistant to pathogens. Given that cuticular col...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Armitage SA,Siva-Jothy MT

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The central aim of evolutionary biology is to understand patterns of genetic variation between species and within populations. To quantify the genetic variation underlying intraspecific differences, estimating quantitative genetic parameters of traits is essential. In Pterygota, wing morphology is an important trait a...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Xia S,Pannebakker BA,Groenen MAM,Zwaan BJ,Bijma P

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reaction norms or tolerance curves have often been used to predict how organisms deal with fluctuating environments. A potential drawback is that reaction norms measured in different constant environments may not capture all aspects of organismal responses to fluctuating environments. We examined growth of the filamen...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Kronholm I,Ketola T

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted controlled crosses in populations of the long-lived clonal shrub, Vaccinium angustifolium (lowbush blueberry) to estimate inbreeding depression and mutation parameters associated with somatic deleterious mutation. Inbreeding depression level was high, with many plants failing to set fruit after self-polli...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Bobiwash K,Schultz ST,Schoen DJ

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the crucial role of cyanobacteria in various ecosystems, little is known about their evolutionary histories, especially microevolutionary dynamics, because of the lack of knowledge regarding their mutation rates. Here we directly estimated cyanobacterial mutation rates based on ancient DNA analyses of ice core...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Segawa T,Takeuchi N,Fujita K,Aizen VB,Willerslev E,Yonezawa T

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A long series of studies on mice has shown that mate choice decisions can be made on the basis of individual genotype at the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), which accords well with the importance of immunocompetence in some theories of sexual selection. Recent work on other vertebrate species, including humans...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Jordan WC,Bruford MW

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phlebotomus ariasi is one of the two sandflies transmitting the causative agent of zoonotic leishmaniasis, Leishmania infantum, in France and Iberia, and provides a rare case study of the postglacial re-colonization of France by a Mediterranean species. Four DNA sequences were analysed-mitochondrial cytochrome b (cyt ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Mahamdallie SS,Pesson B,Ready PD

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Volunteers deriving from unharvested seeds of a crop can lead to persistent feral populations and participate in genetic exchanges across the agro-ecosystem, both between crop varieties and between crops and their wild relatives. A first step to understand the importance of volunteers is to characterize their capacity...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Ostrowski MF,Rousselle Y,Tsitrone A,Santoni S,David J,Reboud X,Muller MH

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of phenotypic plasticity may differ among life stages of the same organism. Age-dependent plasticity can be important for adaptation to heterogeneous environments, but this has only recently been recognized. Whether age-dependent plasticity is a common outcome of local adaptation and whether populations...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Nilsson-Örtman V,Rogell B,Stoks R,Johansson F

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The a priori probability of noticeable linkage among all conceivable experiments of the size reported by Mendel cannot reasonably be taken as greater than 24-36 per cent; and therefore, the frequently heard opinion that his chances of encountering linkage were high, approaching 99-4 per cent, appears to be mistaken. ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Douglas L,Novitski E

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chicken growth traits are economically important, but the relevant genetic mechanisms have not yet been elucidated. Herein, we performed a genome-wide association study to identify the variants associated with growth traits. In total, 860 chickens from a Gushi-Anka F2 resource population were phenotyped for 68 growth ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Zhang Y,Wang Y,Li Y,Wu J,Wang X,Bian C,Tian Y,Sun G,Han R,Liu X,Jiang R,Wang Y,Li G,Li W,Hu X,Kang X

更新日期：2020-09-28 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：:Forty-two homozygous lines each isoallelic for the Esterase 6 (Est-6) locus were extracted from a natural population of Drosophila melanogaster. Homogenates of 4-5 day old virgin adults of each sex from several replicate cultures of each line were assayed for EST6 activity. Depending on the line, males had from three ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Game AY,Oakeshott JG

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent molecular evidence has shown that many MHC polymorphisms are not only shared between species but are in fact identical at the molecular level. Species that share these polymorphisms may be very distantly related and often diverged millions of generations ago. It is now known that this phenomenon is very unlikel...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Golding B

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic analyses of population structure can be placed in explicit environmental contexts if appropriate environmental data are available. Here, we use high-coverage and high-resolution oceanographic and genetic sequence data to assess population structure patterns and their potential environmental influences for hump...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Mendez M,Subramaniam A,Collins T,Minton G,Baldwin R,Berggren P,Särnblad A,Amir OA,Peddemors VM,Karczmarski L,Guissamulo A,Rosenbaum HC

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cycloheximide-resistant mutants of Schizosaccharomyces pombe were isolated either as spontaneous mutants or after mutagenic treatment with nitrous acid, UV and N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine (MNNG). Twenty-three spontaneous mutants and 64 induced mutants were analysed genetically. Crosses revealed that at least ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Ibrahim MA,Coddington A

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of population size and spatial isolation on contemporary gene flow by pollen and mating patterns in temperate forest trees are not well documented, although they are crucial factors in the life history of plant species. We analysed a small, isolated population and a large, continuous population of the in...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Hoebee SE,Arnold U,Düggelin C,Gugerli F,Brodbeck S,Rotach P,Holderegger R

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of Haldane's rule suggests that sex chromosomes commonly have a key role in reproductive barriers and speciation. However, the majority of research on Haldane's rule has been conducted in species with conventional sex determination systems (XY and ZW) and exceptions to the rule have been understudied. H...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Moran PA,Ritchie MG,Bailey NW

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the local and regional patterns of species distributions has been a major goal of ecological and evolutionary research. The notion that these patterns can be understood through simple quantitative rules is attractive, but while numerous scaling laws exist (e.g., metabolic, fractals), we are aware of no s...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Bangert RK,Lonsdorf EV,Wimp GM,Shuster SM,Fischer D,Schweitzer JA,Allan GJ,Bailey JK,Whitham TG

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The field of ecological genomics seeks to understand the genetic mechanisms underlying responses of organisms to their natural environments. This is being achieved through the application of functional genomic approaches to identify and characterize genes with ecological and evolutionary relevance. By its very nature,...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Ungerer MC,Johnson LC,Herman MA

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypothesis that traits closely associated with fitness will generally possess lower heritabilities than traits more loosely connected with fitness is tested using 1120 narrow sense heritability estimates for wild, outbred animal populations, collected from the published record. Our results indicate that life histo...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Mousseau TA,Roff DA

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantifying the effect of pollen dispersal and flowering traits on mating success is essential for understanding evolutionary responses to changing environments and establishing strategies for forest tree breeding. This study examined, quantitatively, the effects of male fecundity, interindividual distance and anisotr...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Torimaru T,Wennström U,Lindgren D,Wang XR

更新日期：2012-03-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Porcellionides pruinosus is a cosmopolitan woodlouse. It is known to exhibit patterns of geographical variation between populations, and has been suspected to consist of several very closely related species. This species was found to carry Wolbachia endosymbionts, alpha-proteobacteria which are known to modify the rep...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Michel-Salzat A,Cordaux R,Bouchon D

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An important contributor to the differences between individuals derives from their plasticity. Such plasticity is widespread in organisms from the simple to the most complex. Adaptability plasticity enables the organism to cope with a novel challenge not previously encountered by its ancestors. Conditional plasticity ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Bateson P

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The polyploid Salix alba-Salix fragilis hybrid complex is rather difficult to study when using only morphological characters. Most of the features have a low diagnostic value for unambiguously identifying the hybrids, introgression patterns and population structures, though morphological traits have proved to be usefu...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Triest L,De Greef B,De Bondt R,Van Slycken J

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental stress generally exacerbates the harmful effects of inbreeding and it has been proposed that this could be exploited in purging deleterious alleles from threatened inbred populations. However, understanding what factors contribute to variability in the strength of inbreeding depression (ID) observed acro...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Enders LS,Nunney L

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00