Postprocessing of genealogical trees.

abstract：:The prion-like behavior of Sup35p, the eRF3 homolog in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, mediates the activity of the cytoplasmic nonsense suppressor known as [PSI(+)]. Sup35p is divided into three regions of distinct function. The N-terminal and middle (M) regions are required for the induction and propagation of [...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Jensen MA,True HL,Chernoff YO,Lindquist S

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Divergent phenotypes are often detected in domesticated plants despite the existence of invariant phenotypes in their wild forms. One such example in rice is the occurrence of varying degrees of apiculus coloration due to anthocyanin pigmentation, which was previously reported to be caused by a series of alleles at th...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Saitoh K,Onishi K,Mikami I,Thidar K,Sano Y

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A causal link between deficiency of the cytochrome respiratory pathway and life span was previously shown in the filamentous fungus Podospora anserina. To gain more insight into the relationship between mitochondrial function and life span, we have constructed a strain carrying a thermosensitive mutation of the gene o...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Sellem CH,Lemaire C,Lorin S,Dujardin G,Sainsard-Chanet A

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The L1 family of single-pass transmembrane cell adhesion molecules (L1CAMs) is conserved from Caenorhabditis elegans and Drosophila to vertebrates and is required for axon guidance, neurite outgrowth, and maintenance of neuronal positions. The extracellular region of L1CAMs mediates cell adhesion via interactions with...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Zhou S,Opperman K,Wang X,Chen L

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The white-apricot (wa) allele differs from the wild-type white gene by the presence of the retrovirus-like transposable element copia within the transcription unit. Most RNAs derived from wa have 3' termini within this insertion, and only small amounts of structurally normal RNA are produced. The activity of wa is red...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Peng XB,Mount SM

更新日期：1990-12-01 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：:Fossil evidence links human ancestry with populations that evolved from modern gracile morphology in Africa 130,000-160,000 years ago. Yet fossils alone do not provide clear answers to the question of whether the ancestors of all modern Homo sapiens comprised a single African population or an amalgamation of distinct ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Garrigan D,Mobasher Z,Kingan SB,Wilder JA,Hammer MF

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The eukaryotic cytoplasm contains a variety of ribonucleoprotein (RNP) granules in addition to the better-understood membrane-bound organelles. These granules form in response to specific stress conditions and contain a number of signaling molecules important for the control of cell growth and survival. However, relat...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Zhang B,Shi Q,Varia SN,Xing S,Klett BM,Cook LA,Herman PK

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationships between synonymous and nonsynonymous substitution rates and between synonymous rate and codon usage bias are important to our understanding of the roles of mutation and selection in the evolution of Drosophila genes. Previous studies used approximate estimation methods that ignore codon bias. In this...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Dunn KA,Bielawski JP,Yang Z

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied microgeographic and temporal genetic differentiation in natural populations of Drosophila persimilis with respect to chromosome inversion and enzyme polymorphisms. Both inversion frequencies and allozyme frequencies varied significantly over short distances. Neither differed significantly between morning an...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Taylor CE,Powell JR

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three previously described genes, enhancer of yellow, 1, 2 and 3, are shown to cooperate with the zeste gene in the control of white gene expression. The mutations e(y)1u1, e(y)3u1, and to a lesser extent e(y)2u1, enhance the effect of the zeste null allele zv77h. Different combinations of e(y)1u1, e(y)2u1 and e(y)3u1...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Georgiev PG

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genes expressed in testes are critical to male reproductive success, affecting spermatogenesis, sperm competition, and sperm-egg interaction. Comparing the evolution of testis proteins at different taxonomic levels can reveal which genes and functional classes are targets of natural and sexual selection and whether th...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Turner LM,Chuong EB,Hoekstra HE

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative trait loci (QTL) affecting milk production and health of dairy cattle were mapped in a very large Holstein granddaughter design. The analysis included 1794 sons of 14 sires and 206 genetic markers distributed across all 29 autosomes and flanking an estimated 2497 autosomal cM using Kosambi's mapping funct...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Zhang Q,Boichard D,Hoeschele I,Ernst C,Eggen A,Murkve B,Pfister-Genskow M,Witte LA,Grignola FE,Uimari P,Thaller G,Bishop MD

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several eukaryotic homologs of the Escherichia coli RecQ DNA helicase have been found. These include the human BLM gene, whose mutation results in Bloom syndrome, and the human WRN gene, whose mutation leads to Werner syndrome resembling premature aging. We cloned a Drosophila melanogaster homolog of the RECQ helicase...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Kusano K,Berres ME,Engels WR

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The N-terminal tail of Ndc80 is essential for kinetochore-microtubule binding in human cells but is not required for viability in yeast. We show that the yeast Ndc80 tail is required for timely mitotic progression and accurate chromosome segregation. The tail is essential when cells are limited for Dam1, demonstrating...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Demirel PB,Keyes BE,Chaterjee M,Remington CE,Burke DJ

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various measures have been proposed for characterizing the statistical association that arises between alleles at different loci. Hedrick has compared these measures with the standardized measure D' proposed by Lewontin on the grounds that this latter measure is independent of allele frequency. Although D' has the sam...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Lewontin RC

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microsatellites have been widely used as tools for population studies. However, inference about population processes relies on the specification of mutation parameters that are largely unknown and likely to differ across loci. Here, we use data on somatic mutations to investigate the mutation process at 14 tetranucleo...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Gonser R,Donnelly P,Nicholson G,Di Rienzo A

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein aggregates are a common pathological feature of most neurodegenerative diseases (NDs). Understanding their formation and regulation will help clarify their controversial roles in disease pathogenesis. To date, there have been few systematic studies of aggregates formation in Drosophila, a model organism that h...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Zhang S,Binari R,Zhou R,Perrimon N

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drosophila melanogaster males dosage compensate by twofold upregulation of the expression of genes on their single X chromosome. This process requires at least five proteins and two noncoding RNAs, roX1 and roX2, which paint the male X chromosome. We used a deletion analysis to search for functional RNA domains within...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Stuckenholz C,Meller VH,Kuroda MI

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA sequence analysis and genetic mapping of loci from mating-type-specific chromosomes of the smut fungus Microbotryum violaceum demonstrated that the nonrecombining mating-type-specific region in this species comprises approximately 25% ( approximately 1 Mb) of the chromosome length. Divergence between homologous ma...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Votintseva AA,Filatov DA

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In lytic cycle crosses with Red-Gam-lambda phage, particles were examined that had undergone an Int-mediated exchange. It was assumed that this exchange dimerized the circular lambda, making it packageable. Among these Int-mediated recombinants, particles were identified that had, in addition, enjoyed a close double e...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Stahl FW,Lieb M,Stahl MM

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We identified the Drosophila melanogaster Signal peptide peptidase gene (Spp) that encodes a multipass transmembrane aspartyl protease. Drosophila SPP is homologous to the human signal peptide peptidase (SPP) and is distantly related to the presenilins. We show that, like human SPP, Drosophila SPP can proteolyze a mod...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Casso DJ,Tanda S,Biehs B,Martoglio B,Kornberg TB

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estimating the fixation probability of a beneficial mutation has a rich history in theoretical population genetics. Typically, to attain mathematical tractability, we assume that generation times are fixed, while the number of offspring per individual is stochastic. However, fixation probabilities are extremely sensit...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Hubbarde JE,Wild G,Wahl LM

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The classic diallel takes a set of parents and produces offspring from all possible mating pairs. Phenotype values among the offspring can then be related back to their respective parentage. When the parents are diploid, sexed, and inbred, the diallel can characterize aggregate effects of genetic background on a pheno...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Lenarcic AB,Svenson KL,Churchill GA,Valdar W

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The linkage disequilibrium pattern analysis is a method that allows one to detect present and past events of selection. We applied it to our data on the inversions of Drosophila mediopunctata and to published data of Drosophila subobscura, which are systems probably under complex modes of selection. The method gave me...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Peixoto AA,Klaczko LB

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have analyzed the requirements for the multi sex combs (mxc) gene during development to gain further insight into the mechanisms and developmental processes that depend on the important trans-regulators forming the Polycomb group (PcG) in Drosophila melanogaster. mxc is allelic with the tumor suppressor locus letha...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Saget O,Forquignon F,Santamaria P,Randsholt NB

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of quantitative genetics in plant and animal breeding has largely focused on additive models, which may also capture dominance and epistatic effects. Partitioning genetic variance into its additive and nonadditive components using pedigree-based models (P-genomic best linear unbiased predictor) (P-BLUP...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Muñoz PR,Resende MF Jr,Gezan SA,Resende MD,de Los Campos G,Kirst M,Huber D,Peter GF

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A laboratory strain of Drosophila pseudoobscura (L116) is studied that, when crossed to sex-ratio homozygous females, produces sons that exhibit varying levels of the male sex-ratio (msr) phenotype. The msr phenotype occurs only in sex-ratio males and is due to the production of a high frequency of nullo-XY sperm. The...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Cobbs G

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vegetative incompatibility in fungi has long been known to reduce the transmission of viruses between individuals, but the barrier to transmission is incomplete. In replicated laboratory assays, we showed conclusively that the transmission of viruses between individuals of the chestnut blight fungus Cryphonectria para...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Cortesi P,McCulloch CE,Song H,Lin H,Milgroom MG

更新日期：2001-09-01 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