Selection during a selfing programme. II. The effects of two or more rounds of selection.

abstract：:A cline in the frequency of melanic morphs of the two-spot ladybird, Adalia bipunctata, was first surveyed in 1980 along a transect extending inland from the coast in the Netherlands. At that time, the frequency of melanics increased over some 40 km from 10% near the coast to nearly 60% inland. Additional surveys made...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Brakefield PM,de Jong PW

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Relatedness between individuals is central to ecological genetics. Multiple methods are available to quantify relatedness from molecular data, including method-of-moment and maximum-likelihood estimators. We describe a maximum-likelihood estimator for autopolyploids, and quantify its statistical performance under a ra...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Huang K,Guo ST,Shattuck MR,Chen ST,Qi XG,Zhang P,Li BG

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identifying genetic cues of functional relevance is key to understanding the drivers of evolution and increasingly important for the conservation of biodiversity. This study introduces nuclear ribosomal DNA (nrDNA) to mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) copy number ratios as a metric with which to screen for this functional gen...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Goodall-Copestake WP

更新日期：2018-08-01 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：: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：:Stable hybrid zones in which ecologically divergent taxa give rise to a range of recombinants are natural laboratories in which the genetic basis of adaptation and reproductive isolation can be unraveled. One such hybrid zone is formed by the fire-bellied toads Bombina bombina and B. variegata (Anura: Discoglossidae)....

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Nürnberger B,Hofman S,Förg-Brey B,Praetzel G,Maclean A,Szymura JM,Abbott CM,Barton NH

更新日期：2003-08-01 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

abstract：:Genomic selection has become a reality in plant breeding programs with the reduction in genotyping costs. Especially in maize breeding programs, it emerges as a promising tool for predicting hybrid performance. The dynamics of a commercial breeding program involve the evaluation of several traits simultaneously in a l...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： de Oliveira AA,Resende MFR Jr,Ferrão LFV,Amadeu RR,Guimarães LJM,Guimarães CT,Pastina MM,Margarido GRA

更新日期：2020-08-01 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：:Deciphering the colonization processes by which introduced pests invade new areas is essential to limit the risk of further expansion and/or multiple introductions. We here studied the invasion history of the maritime pine bast scale Matsucoccus feytaudi. This host-specific insect does not cause any damage in its nati...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Kerdelhué C,Boivin T,Burban C

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge of the mechanism underlying the expression of melanin-based sex-traits may help us to understand their signalling function. Potential sources of inter-individual variation are the total amount of melanins produced but also how biochemical precursors are allocated into the eumelanin and phaeomelanin pigments ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Roulin A,Dijkstra C

更新日期：2003-05-01 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：:Mitochondrial DNA diversity of seven Silurus glanis populations (six from Greece and one from the Danube Delta) and three populations of the endemic Greek Silurus aristotelis was investigated. RFLP analysis of four regions of mitochondrial DNA (cytochrome b, D-loop, ND-5/6) amplified by PCR was used. Ten and nine hapl...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Triantafyllidis A,Abatzopoulos TJ,Economidis PS

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apomixis is a mode of asexual reproduction through seed. Progeny produced by apomixis are clonal replicas of a mother plant. The essential feature of apomixis is that embryo sacs and embryos are produced in ovules without meiotic reduction or egg cell fertilisation. Thus, apomixis fixes successful gene combinations an...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Barcaccia G,Arzenton F,Sharbel TF,Varotto S,Parrini P,Lucchin M

更新日期：2006-04-01 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：:Blue mussels of the genus Mytilus have an unusual mode of mitochondrial DNA inheritance termed doubly uniparental inheritance (DUI). Females are homoplasmic for the F mitotype which is inherited maternally, whereas males are heteroplasmic for this and the paternally inherited M mitotype. In areas where species distrib...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Wood AR,Turner G,Skibinski DO,Beaumont AR

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The teleost fish, medaka (Oryzias latipes), has an XX/XY sex-determining mechanism. A Y-linked DM domain gene, DMY, has been isolated by positional cloning as the sex-determining gene in this species. Previously, we conducted a field survey of genotypic sex and found that approximately 1% of wild medaka are sex-revers...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Shinomiya A,Otake H,Hamaguchi S,Sakaizumi M

更新日期：2010-11-01 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：: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 theoretical impacts of anthropogenic habitat degradation on genetic resources have been well articulated. Here we use a simulation approach to assess the magnitude of expected genetic change, and review 31 studies of 23 neotropical tree species to assess whether empirical case studies conform to theory. Major diff...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Lowe AJ,Boshier D,Ward M,Bacles CF,Navarro C

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hybrid zones provide excellent opportunities to study processes and mechanisms underlying reproductive isolation and speciation. Here we investigated sex-specific clines of molecular markers in hybrid zones of morphologically cryptic yet genetically highly-diverged evolutionary lineages of the European common vole (Mi...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Sutter A,Beysard M,Heckel G

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flowering time differences between metal-tolerant and nontolerant populations of the grass Anthoxanthum odoratum growing across a mine boundary have persisted for over 40 years. These flowering time differences result in a high degree of prezygotic genetic isolation (isolation index=0.43) between the tolerant mine pop...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Antonovics J

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alcohol dehydrogenase activity has been measured in 186 iso-second chromosome lines--104 from seven Australian populations and 82 from six Chinese populations. Restriction endonuclease variation in the Adh gene region in these lines has previously been described (Jiang & Gibson, 1991). The mean ADH activity of AdhF an...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Jiang JC,Gibson JB

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 'Hill-Robertson (HR) effect' describes that linkage between sites under selection will reduce the overall effectiveness of selection in finite populations. Here we discuss the major concepts associated with the HR effect and present results of computer simulations focusing on the linkage effects generated by multi...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Comeron JM,Williford A,Kliman RM

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：:SINE sequences are interspersed throughout virtually all eukaryotic genomes. In the family Salmonidae three families of SINEs have been identified. In this work we have attempted to characterize and locate by means of fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) one of these families (HpaI) in the genome of Atlantic salmo...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Perez J,Garcia-Vazquez E,Moran P

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wolbachia is an intracellular endosymbiont that induces a variety of reproductive alterations in diverse arthropods. The almond moth, Cadra cautella, is double infected with two Wolbachia variants, wCauA and wCauB, and expresses complete cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI). The individual contribution of wCauA and wCauB ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Sasaki T,Massaki N,Kubo T

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The quantitative genetic properties are derived for the bulk F2 originating from random fertilization (RF) amongst hybrid (F1) individuals. Only its mean appears to have been derived previously, and that definition is confirmed (by another method). New general equations are found also for all genotype frequencies, all...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Gordon IL

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Correlated multiple testing is widely performed in genetic research, particularly in multilocus analyses of complex diseases. Failure to control appropriately for the effect of multiple testing will either result in a flood of false-positive claims or in true hits being overlooked. Cheverud proposed the idea of adjust...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Li J,Ji L

更新日期：2005-09-01 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