Population genetic structure, worker reproduction and thelytokous parthenogenesis in the desert ant Cataglyphis sabulosa.

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：:Local adaptation is a common feature of plant and animal populations. Adaptive phenotypic traits are genetically differentiated along environmental gradients, but the genetic basis of such adaptation is still poorly known. Genetic association studies of local adaptation combine data over populations. Correcting for po...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Kujala ST,Knürr T,Kärkkäinen K,Neale DB,Sillanpää MJ,Savolainen O

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inbred laboratory stocks of the locust Locusta migratoria were used in two different types of experiment involving the superimposition of heat-induced changes in chiasma frequency. The first involved the administration of two heat-treatments at 40 degrees C alternating with a return to 30 degrees C. This was designed ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Henderson SA,Buss ME

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pedunculate oak and sessile oak are two sympatric interfertile species that exhibit leaf morphological differences. We aimed to detect quantitative trait loci (QTLs) of these traits in order to locate genomic regions involved in species differentiation. A total of 15 leaf morphological traits were assessed in a mixed ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Saintagne C,Bodénès C,Barreneche T,Pot D,Plomion C,Kremer A

更新日期：2004-01-01 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

abstract：:Population genetics theory predicts loss in genetic variability because of drift and inbreeding in isolated plant populations; however, it has been argued that long-distance pollination and seed dispersal may be able to maintain gene flow, even in highly fragmented landscapes. We tested how historical effective popula...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： da Silva Carvalho C,Ribeiro MC,Côrtes MC,Galetti M,Collevatti RG

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome and body sizes were measured in 38 species of turbellarian flatworms and 16 species of copepod crustaceans. Significant positive relationships existed between genome size and body size in both groups. The slopes of these regressions indicated that increases in cell volume are reinforced by increased cell number...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Gregory TR,Hebert PD,Kolasa J

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic resources developed for domesticated species provide powerful tools for studying the evolutionary history of their wild relatives. Here we use 61K single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) evenly spaced throughout the canine nuclear genome to analyse evolutionary relationships among the three largest European pop...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Pilot M,Greco C,vonHoldt BM,Jędrzejewska B,Randi E,Jędrzejewski W,Sidorovich VE,Ostrander EA,Wayne RK

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A population resulting from the diallel cross of a set of elite inbred lines was selected under two strategies: (i) inbred strategy (IS) under brother-sister mating; and (ii) random strategy (RIS) under random mating. The final lines in both cases were completely inbred. RIS populations clearly responded better than I...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Silvela L,de la Peña ID,Gomez-Ruano R

更新日期：1999-06-01 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：:Heterozygotes are assumed to mate with a frequency that is any general function, f(v), of their population frequency, v. Models are analysed in which the selection that determines the function f(v) acts either on one sex alone or on both sexes equally. The central equilibrium point v* = 1/2 always exists; it is stable...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： St Lawrence I,O'Donald P

更新日期：1981-08-01 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：:In the past, numerous Cf genes have been reported in tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) that confer resistance against leaf mould (Cladosporium fulvum Cke.). We are interested in genetic variation at Cf loci. Therefore, previously uncharacterized Cf genes were further analysed. Recognition of the AVR4 elicitor, DN...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Haanstra JP,Thomas CM,Jones JD,Lindhout P

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many herbicide-resistant weed species are polyploids, but far too little about the evolution of resistance mutations in polyploids is understood. Hexaploid wild oat (Avena fatua) is a global crop weed and many populations have evolved herbicide resistance. We studied plastidic acetyl-coenzyme A carboxylase (ACCase)-in...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Yu Q,Ahmad-Hamdani MS,Han H,Christoffers MJ,Powles SB

更新日期：2013-03-01 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：:Recent evidence suggests the frequent occurrence of a simple non-Darwinian (but non-Lamarckian) model for the evolution of adaptive phenotypic traits, here entitled the plasticity-relaxation-mutation (PRM) mechanism. This mechanism involves ancestral phenotypic plasticity followed by specialization in one alternative ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Hughes AL

更新日期：2012-04-01 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：:Crop modelling has so far contributed little to the genetic analysis of a quantitative trait. This study illustrates how a simple model for crop phenological development, which assumes that crop development rate is affected by daily effective temperature, can assist the identification of Quantitative Trait Loci (QTLs)...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Yin X,Kropff MJ,Stam P

更新日期：1999-04-01 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：:Understanding genetic mechanisms of self-incompatibility (SI) and how they evolve is central to understanding the mating behaviour of most outbreeding angiosperms. Sporophytic SI (SSI) is controlled by a single multi-allelic locus, S, which is expressed in the diploid (sporophyte) plant to determine the SI phenotype o...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Brennan AC,Tabah DA,Harris SA,Hiscock SJ

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The long generation time and large effective size of widespread forest tree species can result in slow evolutionary rate and incomplete lineage sorting, complicating species delimitation. We addressed this issue with the African timber tree genus Milicia that comprises two morphologically similar and often confounded ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Daïnou K,Mahy G,Duminil J,Dick CW,Doucet JL,Donkpégan AS,Pluijgers M,Sinsin B,Lejeune P,Hardy OJ

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advances in the use of molecular markers to elucidate the inheritance of quantitative traits enable the integration of genetic information on physiological traits into crop growth models. The objective of this study was to assess the ability of a crop growth model with QTL-based estimates of physiological input parame...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Yin X,Chasalow SD,Dourleijn CJ,Stam P,Kropff MJ

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural populations of Drosophila robusta are polymorphic for chromosomal gene arrangements in most of its range, the deciduous forests of North America east of the Rocky Mountains. Many of the gene arrangements are the result of paracentric inversions on both arms of the metacentric second chromosome. They are freque...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Levitan M,Etges WJ

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I made use of the known dates of reclamation (and of afforestations) in the IJsselmeerpolders in The Netherlands to assess evolutionary adaptation in Cepaea nemoralis. At 12 localities (three in each polder), I sampled a total of 4390 adult individuals in paired open and shaded habitats, on average 233 m apart, and sc...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Schilthuizen M

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since transgenic crops expressing Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) toxins were first released, resistance evolution leading to failure in control of pests populations has been observed in a number of species. Field resistance of the moth Busseola fusca was acknowledged 8 years after Bt maize was introduced in South Africa....

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Campagne P,Capdevielle-Dulac C,Pasquet R,Cornell SJ,Kruger M,Silvain JF,LeRü B,Van den Berg J

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction between rapidly evolving centromere sequences and conserved kinetochore machinery appears to be mediated by centromere-binding proteins. A recent theory proposes that the independent evolution of centromere-binding proteins in isolated populations may be a universal cause of speciation among eukaryotes...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Sainz A,Wilder JA,Wolf M,Hollocher H

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flies from a wild type strain of Drosophila melanogaster, previously kept at 25 degrees C, were reared at either 20, 25 or 29 degrees C. As expected, developmental time and adult body size decreased with increasing temperature. Adult longevity of flies reared at 25 degrees C was slightly greater than that of flies rai...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Zwaan BJ,Bijlsma R,Hoekstra RF

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parasitic wasps (parasitoids) use volatiles from the plants infested by phytophagous insects to locate host herbivores, but their behavioural response to such semiochemicals is highly variable. Bi-directional selection on Cotesia glomerata (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) was conducted to investigate the importance of geneti...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Wang Q,Gu H,Dorn S

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It was shown previously that the long lifespan and juvenile phase of trees strongly attenuate founder effects during colonisation in a diffusive dispersal model. However, this model yielded too slow a colonisation rate in comparison with palynological data for temperate forest trees. Since rare long-distance dispersal...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Austerlitz F,Garnier-Géré PH

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differences in behaviour between individuals in populations living in different environments may result from evolution proceeding differently in each population. The parasitoid wasp Cotesia glomerata (L.) (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) parasitizes early instar larvae of butterflies in the family Pieridae. In the study area...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Nouhuys SV,Via S

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00