Effectiveness of microsatellite and SNP markers for parentage and identity analysis in species with low genetic diversity: the case of European bison.

abstract：:The transport of desert soil into the atmosphere during desert sandstorms can affect the Earth's climate and environmental health. Asian desert sandstorms occur almost every year during the Spring, as the atmosphere in the Northern hemisphere warms. It is conceivable that these Asian desert sandstorms may transport mi...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： An S,Sin HH,DuBow MS

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many first-generation interspecific hybrids between the five species of the Drosophila virilis subgroup are fertile. Fertile hybrids can be utilized in the analysis of sterile hybrids, by creating new combinations of genetic elements to identify cross-incompatible chromosomes or chromosome segments. Here, crosses star...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Heikkinen E,Lumme J

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural populations of the arctic fox (Alopex lagopus, Canidae, Carnivora) differ drastically in their reproductive strategy. Coastal foxes, which depend on stable food resources, produce litters of moderate size. Inland foxes feed on small rodents, whose populations are characterized by cycling fluctuation. In the ye...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Axenovich TI,Zorkoltseva IV,Akberdin IR,Beketov SV,Kashtanov SN,Zakharov IA,Borodin PM

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic differentiation of populations is usually studied by using the equilibrium theory of Wright's infinite island model. In practice, however, populations are not always in equilibrium, and the number of subpopulations is often very small. To get some insight into the dynamics of genetic differentiation of the...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Varvio SL,Chakraborty R,Nei M

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many populations of the buprestid leaf-mining beetle, Brachys tessellatus, from central South Carolina, USA, show highly skewed sex ratios, ranging from 1.3 to 6.0 females per male. We have identified a Rickettsia bacterium that is associated with sex ratio distortion (SRD) and selective killing of male embryos in B. ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Lawson ET,Mousseau TA,Klaper R,Hunter MD,Werren JH

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We review and discuss the importance of correlational selection (selection for optimal character combinations) in natural populations. If two or more traits subject to multivariate selection are heritable, correlational selection builds favourable genetic correlations through the formation of linkage disequilibrium at...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Sinervo B,Svensson E

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To improve the efficiency of gynogenetic induction, the effects of UV light and thermal shock on gametes were investigated in the sea bass. Exposure of sperm to UV light (>/=15 000 erg mm-2) reduced the amount of motile spermatozoa, without affecting the duration of motility in the spermatozoa that remained motile. Th...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Felip A,Piferrer F,Carrillo M,Zanuy S

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative trait locus (QTL) analysis detects regions of a genome that are linked to a complex trait. Once a QTL is detected, the region is narrowed by positional cloning in the hope of determining the underlying candidate gene-methods used include creating congenic strains, comparative genomics and gene expression ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Cox A,Sheehan SM,Klöting I,Paigen B,Korstanje R

更新日期：2010-11-01 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：:Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) was used to localize two transgenes (gus and bar), carried on plasmids pACT-1F and pUBA, respectively, on mitotic metaphase squashes of T1 plants of the cultivated hexaploid oat Avena sativa L. cotransformed by microprojectile bombardment of embryogenic callus. Among the eight...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Leggett JM,Perret SJ,Harper J,Morris P

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multicellular organisms probably originated as groups of cells formed in several ways, including cell proliferation from a group of founder cells and aggregation. Cooperation among cells benefits the group, but may be costly (altruistic) or beneficial (synergistic) to individual cooperating cells. In this paper, we st...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Michod RE,Roze D

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haploid nuclear DNA of 23 species of Aedes, as determined by Feulgen cytophotometry, was found to vary 3-fold. This was accompanied by a 2-fold variation in total chromosomal length. There was a significant correlation (r = 0.765, P less than 0.001) between these two parameters. Genome size varied from 0.87 pg to 1.3 ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Rao PN,Rai K

更新日期：1987-10-01 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：:Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in both men and women in the US. While most sporadic lung cancer cases are related to environmental factors such as smoking, genetic susceptibility may also play an important role and a number of lung cancer associated single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) have been i...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Lei X,Yuan D,Zhu Z,Huang S

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Propagation, dispersal, and establishment are fundamental population processes, and are critical stages in the life cycle of an organism. In symbiotic organisms such as lichens, consisting of a fungus and a population of photobionts, reproduction is a complex process. Although many lichens are able to reproduce both s...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Walser JC,Gugerli F,Holderegger R,Kuonen D,Scheidegger C

更新日期：2004-10-01 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：: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：: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：:Arctic-alpine plants have enormous ranges in the Northern Hemisphere. Phylogeographic studies have provided insights into their glacial survival as well as their postglacial colonization history. However, our understanding of the population dynamics of disjunct alpine populations in temperate regions remains limited. ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Ikeda H,Sakaguchi S,Yakubov V,Barkalov V,Setoguchi H

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MtDNA restriction fragment polymorphisms were found between cytoplasmic male-sterility types P and R of Plantago lanceolata with the homologous probe pPl311 and maize mtDNA fragments derived from the regions of atp1, cox1 and cox2. No mtDNA differences were observed between male- sterile and restored plants with the s...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Groenendijk CF,Sandbrink JM,Brederode JV,van Damme JM

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of nuclear genealogies in natural populations of nonmodel organisms is expected to provide novel insights into the evolutionary history of populations, especially when developed in the framework of well-established mtDNA phylogeographical scenarios. In the Iberian Peninsula, the endemic Schreiber's green liz...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Godinho R,Mendonça B,Crespo EG,Ferrand N

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Competition experiments between several Drosophila pseudoobscura strains that were previously subjected to periodic bottlenecks of different sizes and D. willistoni have been carried out. Contrary to previous results with these two species, where stable coexistence was detected, populations of D. pseudoobscura displac...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： López Bueno JA,Moya A,González-Candelas F

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sex chromosomes are predicted to harbour elevated levels of sexually antagonistic variation due to asymmetries in the heritability of recessive traits in the homogametic versus heterogametic sex. This evolutionary dynamic may manifest as high recessive load specifically affecting the homogametic sex, and the retention...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Saccheri IJ,Whiteford S,Yung CJ,Van't Hof AE

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have constructed a linkage map for the peppered moth (Biston betularia), the classical ecological genetics model of industrial melanism, aimed both at localizing the network of loci controlling melanism and making inferences about chromosome dynamics. The linkage map, which is based primarily on amplified fragment ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Van't Hof AE,Nguyen P,Dalíková M,Edmonds N,Marec F,Saccheri IJ

更新日期：2013-03-01 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：:We present a study of fine-scale spatial genetic structure (SGS) and assess the impact of seed and pollen dispersal on the pattern of genetic diversity in the predominantly selfing Hordeum spontaneum. The study included (1) direct measurement of dispersal in a controlled environment, and (2) analyses of SGS and estima...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Volis S,Zaretsky M,Shulgina I

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of organisms on 'terrestrial islands' can improve our understanding of two unresolved issues in evolutionary genetics: the likely long-term effects of habitat fragmentation and the genetic underpinnings of continental species radiations in island-like terrestrial habitats. We have addressed both issues for fou...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Barbará T,Lexer C,Martinelli G,Mayo S,Fay MF,Heuertz M

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Red deer representing the four different European subspecies Cervus elaphus atlanticus, C. e. elaphus, C. e. germanicus, and C. e. scoticus were examined for allozyme variability at 35 enzyme loci. The proportion of polymorphic loci within populations (P) ranged from 0 to 13.8 per cent and the average heterozygosity (...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Gyllenstein U,Ryman N,Reuterwall C,Dratch P

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wolbachia are a group of maternally inherited bacteria that infect a wide range of arthropods. Wolbachia infections are known to result in the expression of various abnormal reproductive phenotypes, the best known being cytoplasmic incompatibility. The first systematic survey of 42 spider mite species in Japan reveale...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Gotoh T,Noda H,Hong XY

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Determining the mechanisms responsible for the distribution of genetic diversity in natural populations has occupied a central role in molecular evolution. Our study was motivated by the unprecedented observation that a widespread Eurasian flycatcher, Ficedula albicilla, exhibited no variation at the mitochondrial DNA...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Hung CM,Zink RM

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00