Regulation of ribosome biogenesis by nucleostemin 3 promotes local and systemic growth in Drosophila.

abstract：:In this paper we study the process of allele frequency change in finite populations with overlapping generations with the purpose of evaluating the possibility of estimating the effective size from observations of temporal frequency shifts of selectively neutral alleles. Focusing on allele frequency changes between su...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Jorde PE,Ryman N

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombination and chromosome synapsis bring homologous chromosomes together, creating chiasmata that ensure accurate disjunction during reductional division. SPO13 is a key gene required for meiosis I (MI) reductional segregation, but dispensable for recombination, in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Absence of SPO13 leads t...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Rutkowski LH,Esposito RE

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Centromere H3 proteins (CenH3's) are variants of histone H3 specialized for packaging centromere DNA. Unlike canonical H3, which is among the most conserved of eukaryotic proteins, CenH3's are rapidly evolving, raising questions about orthology and conservation of function across species. To gain insight on CenH3 evol...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Baker RE,Rogers K

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Dissociation (Ds) mutant, Bz-wm, of the maize bronze-1 (bz) locus conditions a leaky phenotype. Plants carrying this mutant allele synthesize a low amount of an altered Bz gene product, which leads to reduced anthocyanin pigmentation in the seed. The molecular analysis reported here shows that the Bz-wm mutant has...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Schiefelbein JW,Furtek DB,Dooner HK,Nelson OE Jr

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurons and glia display remarkable morphological plasticity, and remodeling of glia may facilitate neuronal shape changes. The molecular basis and control of glial shape changes is not well understood. In response to environmental stress, the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans enters an alternative developmental state, ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Procko C,Lu Y,Shaham S

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The noncanonical Frizzled/planar cell polarity (PCP) pathway regulates establishment of polarity within the plane of an epithelium to generate diversity of cell fates, asymmetric, but highly aligned structures, or to orchestrate the directional migration of cells during convergent extension during vertebrate gastrulat...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Dollar G,Gombos R,Barnett AA,Sanchez Hernandez D,Maung SM,Mihály J,Jenny A

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We identified and characterized 14 extragenic mutations that suppressed the dominant egg-laying defect of certain lin-12 gain-of-function mutations. These suppressors defined seven genes: sup-17, lag-2, sel-4, sel-5, sel-6, sel-7 and sel-8. Mutations in six of the genes are recessive suppressors, whereas the two mutat...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Tax FE,Thomas JH,Ferguson EL,Horvitz HR

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The contributions of direct and inverted repeats to deletion formation were studied by characterizing Ampr revertants of plasmids with a series of insertion mutations at a specific site in the pBR322 ampicillin resistance (amp) gene. The inserts at this site are palindromic, variable in length, and bracketed by 9- or ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Weston-Hafer K,Berg DE

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We study a situation that arises in the somatic evolution of cancer. Consider a finite population of replicating cells and a sequence of mutations: type 0 can mutate to type 1, which can mutate to type 2. There is no back mutation. We start with a homogeneous population of type 0. Mutants of type 1 emerge and either b...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Iwasa Y,Michor F,Nowak MA

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method for estimating the average level of gene flow among populations is introduced. The method provides an estimate of Nm, where N is the size of each local population in an island model and m is the migration rate. This method depends on knowing the phylogeny of the nonrecombining segments of DNA that are sampled...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Slatkin M,Maddison WP

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A strain of Caenorhabditis elegans was constructed that permits selection of dominant or sex-linked mutations that transform XO animals (normally male) into fertile females, using a feminizing mutation, tra-2(e2046gf), which by itself does not sexually transform XO males. Twenty-three mutations were isolated after che...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Hodgkin J,Albertson DG

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The centromere is essential for proper segregation and inheritance of genetic information. Centromeres are generally regulated to occur exactly once per chromosome; failure to do so leads to chromosome loss or damage and loss of linked genetic material. The mechanism for faithful regulation of centromere activity and ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Maggert KA,Karpen GH

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutator and antimutator alleles often arise and spread in both natural microbial populations and laboratory evolution experiments. The evolutionary dynamics of these mutation rate modifiers are determined by indirect selection on linked beneficial and deleterious mutations. These indirect selection pressures have been...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Good BH,Desai MM

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many arthropod species are infected with maternally inherited endosymbionts that induce a shift in the sex ratio of their hosts by feminizing or killing males (cytoplasmic sex-ratio distorters, or SRDs). These endosymbionts can have profound impacts on evolutionary processes of their hosts. Here, I derive analytical e...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Engelstädter J

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peroxisomes are organelles containing a diverse array of enzymes. In fungi they are important for carbon source utilization, pathogenesis, development, and secondary metabolism. We have studied Aspergillus nidulans peroxin (pex) mutants isolated by virtue of their inability to grow on butyrate or by the inactivation o...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Hynes MJ,Murray SL,Khew GS,Davis MA

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extensive length polymorphism and heteroplasmy (multiple forms within an individual) of the D-loop region are observed in mitochondrial DNA of the white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus). The nucleotide sequence of this region, for both a short and a long form, shows that the differences are due to variable numbers o...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Buroker NE,Brown JR,Gilbert TA,O'Hara PJ,Beckenbach AT,Thomas WK,Smith MJ

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fixation probability is determined when population size and selection change over time and differs from Kimura's result, with long-term implications for a population. It is found that changes in population size are not equivalent to the corresponding changes in selection and can result in less drift than anticipat...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Waxman D

更新日期：2011-08-01 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：:To investigate the regulation of Drosophila melanogaster behavior by biogenic amines, we have exploited the broad requirement of the vesicular monoamine transporter (VMAT) for the vesicular storage and exocytotic release of all monoamine neurotransmitters. We used the Drosophila VMAT (dVMAT) null mutant to globally ab...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Chen A,Ng F,Lebestky T,Grygoruk A,Djapri C,Lawal HO,Zaveri HA,Mehanzel F,Najibi R,Seidman G,Murphy NP,Kelly RL,Ackerson LC,Maidment NT,Jackson FR,Krantz DE

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have precisely mapped and sequenced the three 5' exons of the Drosophila melanogaster Gld gene and have identified the start sites for transcription and translation. The first exon is composed of 335 nucleotides and does not contain any putative translation start codons. The second exon is separated from the first ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Whetten R,Organ E,Krasney P,Cox-Foster D,Cavener D

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The external genitalia are some of the most rapidly evolving morphological structures in insects. The posterior lobe of the male genital arch shows striking differences in both size and shape among closely related species of the Drosophila melanogaster species subgroup. Here, we dissect the genetic basis of posterior ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Masly JP,Dalton JE,Srivastava S,Chen L,Arbeitman MN

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selection of suppressor mutations that correct growth defects caused by substitutions in an RNA or protein can reveal functionally important molecular structures and interactions in living cells. This approach is particularly useful for the study of complex biological pathways involving many macromolecules, such as pr...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Brow DA

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The identity of a given cell type is determined by the expression of a set of genes sharing common cis-regulatory motifs and being regulated by shared transcription factors. Here, we identify cis and trans regulatory elements that drive gene expression in the bilateral sensory neuron ASJ, located in the head of the ne...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： González-Barrios M,Fierro-González JC,Krpelanova E,Mora-Lorca JA,Pedrajas JR,Peñate X,Chavez S,Swoboda P,Jansen G,Miranda-Vizuete A

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A BC1 population of the self-compatible tomato Lycopersicon esculentum and its wild self-incompatible relative L. hirsutum f. typicum was used for restriction fragment length polymorphism linkage analysis and quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping of reproductive behavior and floral traits. The self-incompatibility loc...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Bernacchi D,Tanksley SD

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the control of pharyngeal excitation in Caenorhabditis elegans. By laser ablating subsets of the pharyngeal nervous system, we found that the MC neuron type is necessary and probably sufficient for rapid pharyngeal pumping. Electropharyngeograms showed that MC transmits excitatory postsynaptic potentials, s...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Raizen DM,Lee RY,Avery L

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondria of Neurospora crassa contain a cyanide-resistant alternative respiratory pathway in addition to the cytochrome pathway. The alternative oxidase is present only when electron flow through the cytochrome chain is restricted. Both genomic and cDNA copies for the alternative oxidase gene have been isolated an...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Li Q,Ritzel RG,McLean LL,McIntosh L,Ko T,Bertrand H,Nargang FE

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The contribution of epigenetic alterations to natural variation for gene transcription levels remains unclear. In this study, we investigated the functional targets of the maize chromomethylase ZMET2 in multiple inbred lines to determine whether epigenetic changes conditioned by this chromomethylase are conserved or v...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Makarevitch I,Stupar RM,Iniguez AL,Haun WJ,Barbazuk WB,Kaeppler SM,Springer NM

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fine-scale pattern of correlated paternity was characterized within a population of the narrow-endemic model plant species, Centaurea corymbosa, using microsatellites and natural progeny arrays. We used classical approaches to assess correlated mating within sibships and developed a new method based on pairwise ki...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Hardy OJ,González-Martínez SC,Colas B,Fréville H,Mignot A,Olivieri I

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yeast cells deficient in the transcriptional activator Imp2p are viable, but display marked hypersensitivity to a variety of oxidative agents. We now report that imp2 null mutants are also extremely sensitive to elevated levels of the monovalent ions, Na+ and Li+, as well as to the divalent ions Ca2+, Mn2+, Zn2+, and ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Masson JY,Ramotar D

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of haplotype blocks has been shown to be useful in genetics. Fields of application range from the detection of regions under positive selection to statistical methods that make use of dimension reduction. We propose a novel approach ("HaploBlocker") for defining and inferring haplotype blocks that focuses ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Pook T,Schlather M,de Los Campos G,Mayer M,Schoen CC,Simianer H

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00