Bias correction for estimated QTL effects using the penalized maximum likelihood method.

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：:Evolution of the rDNA spacer, ITS 2, is examined by comparing 17 DNA sequences of the ticks, Ixodes scapularis and I. pacificus. The distribution of fixed interspecific differences and the relative frequency of base changes vs. insertions/deletions (indels) matches the distribution and relative frequency for intraspec...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： McLain DK,Wesson DM,Collins FH,Oliver JH Jr

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sequences of ITS1 of the internal transcribed spacer regions of nuclear ribosomal DNA from 11 species or subspecies in four sections of the genus Beta were compared. Phylogeny of these wild beet taxa was inferred from the sequence data using phenetic and phylogenetic analyses. Multiple accessions from the same 11 ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Shen Y,Ford-Lloyd BV,Newbury HJ

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Indirect genetic effects (IGE) occur when the genotype of an individual affects the phenotypic trait value of another conspecific individual. IGEs can have profound effects on both the magnitude and the direction of response to selection. Models of inheritance and response to selection in traits subject to IGEs have b...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Bijma P

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：:Heritabilities of nectar production in the wild species Echium vulgare were estimated as realised heritability under controlled and field conditions. The nectar production of offspring from high- and low-nectar-producing parents was significantly different in both controlled and field conditions, indicating that necta...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Leiss KA,Vrieling K,Klinkhamer PG

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here I develop the idea that ubiquitous harmful genome-wide mutation with local differentiation favors dispersal, even though migration reduces average fitness. Historical contingency of the mutational process means that demes (sub-populations) differentiate from one another. Deleterious or lethal partially recessive ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Morgan MT

更新日期：2002-10-01 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：:Estimating kinship is fundamental for studies of evolution, conservation, and breeding. Genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) and other restriction based genotyping methods have become widely applied in these applications in non-model organisms. However, sequencing errors, depth, and reproducibility between library preps cou...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Hall D,Zhao W,Wennström U,Andersson Gull B,Wang XR

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How do morphological differences between species evolve at the genetic level? This study investigates the genetic basis of recent divergence in male wing size between species of the model parasitoid wasp Nasonia. The forewings of flightless Nasonia vitripennis males are 2.3 times smaller than males of their flighted s...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Loehlin DW,Enders LS,Werren JH

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic control of self-incompatibility (SI) was studied in the Mediterranean short-lived perennial species Anagallis monelli (Primulaceae: Myrsinaceae). Arrays of siblings, including families derived from reciprocal crosses, were cross-pollinated in full diallels, and compatibility groups were assesssed from a ce...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Talavera S,Gibbs PE,Fernández-Piedra MP,Ortiz-Herrera MA

更新日期：2001-11-01 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：:Co-evolution of fungal pathogens with their host species during the domestication of modern crop varieties has likely affected the current genetic divergence of pathogen populations. The objective of this study was to determine if the evolutionary history of the obligate rust pathogen on wheat, Puccinia triticina, is ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Liu M,Rodrigue N,Kolmer J

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dispersal in most plants is mediated by the movement of seeds and pollen, which move genes across the landscape differently. Grevillea macleayana is a rare, fire-dependent Australian shrub with large seeds lacking adaptations for dispersal; yet it produces inflorescences adapted to pollination by highly mobile vertebr...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： England PR,Whelan RJ,Ayre DJ

更新日期：2003-11-01 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：: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：:We present an approach for quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping, termed as 'lineage-specific QTL mapping', for inferring allelic changes of QTL evolution along with branches in a phylogeny. We describe and analyze the simplest case: by adding a third taxon into the normal procedure of QTL mapping between pairs of ta...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Chen C,Ritland K

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 76 sweet cherry genotypes were screened with 34 microsatellite primer pairs previously developed in peach. Amplification of SSR loci was obtained for 24 of the microsatellite primer pairs, and 14 of them produced polymorphic amplification patterns. On the basis of polymorphism and quality of amplification, ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Wünsch A,Hormaza JI

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disease-associated variants in the human genome are continually being identified using DNA sequencing technologies that are especially effective for Mendelian disorders. Here we sequenced whole genome to high coverage (>30×) of 6 members of a 7-generation family with dwarfism from a consanguineous tribe in Pakistan to...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Zhang C,Liu J,Iqbal F,Lu Y,Mustafa S,Bukhari F,Lou H,Fu R,Wu Z,Yang X,Bukhari I,Aslam M,Xu S

更新日期：2018-01-01 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：:The theory, construction and optimization of a model of chromosome pairing in triploid hybrids are re-examined and the model reconstructed. A new approach to optimization is described that removes a bias in the estimation of x, the measure of relative affinity, by weighting the observed and calculated meiotic figure f...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Chapman CGD,Kimber G

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prevention of malaria transmission throughout much of Africa is dependent on bednets that are impregnated with pyrethroid insecticides. Anopheles arabiensis is the major malaria vector in Chad and efforts to control this vector are threatened by the emergence of pyrethroid resistance. WHO bioassays revealed that An. a...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Witzig C,Parry M,Morgan JC,Irving H,Steven A,Cuamba N,Kerah-Hinzoumbé C,Ranson H,Wondji CS

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The European bison (Bison bonasus) has recovered successfully after a severe bottleneck about 90 years ago but has been left with low genetic variability that may substantially hinder parentage and identity analysis. According to pedigree analysis, over 80% of the genes in the contemporary population descend from just...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Tokarska M,Marshall T,Kowalczyk R,Wójcik JM,Pertoldi C,Kristensen TN,Loeschcke V,Gregersen VR,Bendixen C

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A conspicuous shell polychromatism is observed in colonies of Cepaea nemoralis from western France (Brittany). The present study is intended to search for a spatial structure of shell features at this scale and to infer evolutionary processes from the observed patterns. We used a database of morph frequencies (six com...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Bellido A,Madec L,Arnaud JF,Guiller A

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using fast-evolving microsatellites, more slowly evolving ITS markers and performing habitat analyses, we demonstrated a drastic genetic divergence and significant habitat differentiation between early- and late-flowering variants of plants morphologically belonging to Gymnadenia conopsea ssp conopsea. The two phenolo...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Gustafsson S,Lönn M

更新日期：2003-09-01 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：:In the mosquito Culex pipiens, over-production of esterases is a common insecticide resistance mechanism. Different alleles at the esterase A and B loci are known to occur in natural populations, as shown by enzyme electrophoresis and RFLP studies on the esterase B locus. Here we analyse the variability of the esteras...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Guillemaud T,Rooker S,Pasteur N,Raymond M

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene flow via pollen movement affects genetic variation in plant populations and is an important consideration in plant domestication. Fontainea picrosperma is a subcanopy rainforest tree that is of commercial interest because it is the source of tigilanol tiglate, a natural product used for the treatment of solid tum...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Grant EL,Conroy GC,Lamont RW,Reddell PW,Wallace HM,Ogbourne SM

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven different mildew resistant wheat lines derived from crosses between triticale and bread wheat were examined by molecular cytogenetics and chromosome C-banding in order to determine their chromosomal composition. Genomic in situ hybridisation (GISH) showed the presence of rye germplasm in all the lines and identi...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Forsström PO,Merker A,Schwarzacher T

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This corrects the article DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2015.89. ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Kenny NJ,Chan KW,Nong W,Qu Z,Maeso I,Yip HY,Chan TF,Kwan HS,Holland PWH,Chu KH,Hui JHL

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00