Speciation of two desert poplar species triggered by Pleistocene climatic oscillations.

abstract：:There is great uncertainty about how Ireland attained its current fauna and flora. Long-distance human-mediated colonization from southwestern Europe has been seen as a possible way that Ireland obtained many of its species; however, Britain has (surprisingly) been neglected as a source area for Ireland. The pygmy shr...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： McDevitt AD,Vega R,Rambau RV,Yannic G,Herman JS,Hayden TJ,Searle JB

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two hundred and thirty-six mitochondrial DNA nucleotide sequences were used in combination with polymorphism at four nuclear microsatellite loci to assess the amount and distribution of genetic variation within and between African savannah elephants. They were sampled from 11 localities in eastern, western and souther...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Nyakaana S,Arctander P,Siegismund HR

更新日期：2002-08-01 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：:Geographical patterns of gene flow and drift were analysed in the commensal cellar spider Pholcus phalangioides to get insight into the causes affecting genetic variation in this species strictly associated with man. Our sampling consisted of 23 subpopulations collected over five urban regions in central Europe (dista...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Schäfer MA,Hille A,Uhl GB

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Hieracium and Pilosella (Lactuceae, Asteraceae) genera of closely related hawkweeds contain species with two different modes of gametophytic apomixis (asexual seed formation). Both genera contain polyploid species, and in wild populations, sexual and apomictic species co-exist. Apomixis is known to co-exist with s...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Hand ML,Vít P,Krahulcová A,Johnson SD,Oelkers K,Siddons H,Chrtek J Jr,Fehrer J,Koltunow AM

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Segregation distorters are alleles that distort normal segregation in their own favour. Sex chromosomal distorters lead to biased sex ratios, and the presence of such distorters, therefore, may induce selection for a change in the mechanism of sex determination. The evolutionary dynamics of distorter-induced changes i...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Kozielska M,Weissing FJ,Beukeboom LW,Pen I

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The equal probability of transmission of alleles from either parent during sexual reproduction is a central tenet of genetics and evolutionary biology. Yet, there are many cases where this rule is violated. The preferential transmission of alleles or genotypes is termed transmission ratio distortion (TRD). Examples of...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Seymour DK,Chae E,Arioz BI,Koenig D,Weigel D

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hybridization between crops and their weedy or wild relatives is an area of concern because the widespread use of genetically engineered crops may allow novel, beneficial transgenes to enter nearby populations. We compared fitness components of wild Cucurbita pepo from Arkansas, USA, with wild-crop hybrids derived fro...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Spencer LJ,Snow AA

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study characterized the genetic diversity of four populations of Ilex paraguariensis, a plant species native to South America, using random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) markers. A total of 341 different RAPD bands were generated by the 15 primers analysed. High genetic variability was detected within each pop...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Gauer L,Cavalli-Molina S

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic genomes frequently acquire new protein-coding genes which may significantly impact an organism's fitness. Novel genes can be created, for example, by duplication of large genomic regions or de novo, from previously non-coding DNA. Either way, creation of a novel transcript is an essential early step during ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Schmitz JF,Chain FJJ,Bornberg-Bauer E

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Populations of Cepaea hortensis have been sampled from an area of 121 sq km on the north slopes of the Brendon Hills, Somerset, and analysed for chiasma frequency. Variation in chiasma frequency is due to variation in a single large bivalent--the A group bivalent. In 12 populations studied during 1973 no association b...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Price DJ

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conditional average frequency of rare alleles has been shown in simulations to provide a simple and robust estimator of the number of individuals exchanged between local populations in an island model (Nm). This statistic is defined as the average frequency of an allele in those samples in which the allele is pres...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Barton NH,Slatkin M

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive species are believed to spread through a process of stratified dispersal consisting of short-distance diffusive spread around established foci and human mediated long-distance jumps. Brazilian peppertree (Schinus terebinthifolius), native to South America, was introduced twice as an ornamental plant into Flor...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Williams DA,Muchugu E,Overholt WA,Cuda JP

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cycloheximide-resistant mutants of Schizosaccharomyces pombe were isolated either as spontaneous mutants or after mutagenic treatment with nitrous acid, UV and N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine (MNNG). Twenty-three spontaneous mutants and 64 induced mutants were analysed genetically. Crosses revealed that at least ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Ibrahim MA,Coddington A

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A high-resolution transcript linkage map of barley was created using a single doubled haploid (DH) mapping population, only 3'-end expressed sequence tags (ESTs) and only PCR-based assays. Cultivar 'Haruna Nijo' and an ancestral wild-form accession 'H602' were used as EST donors and crossing parents of the mapping pop...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Sato K,Nankaku N,Takeda K

更新日期：2009-08-01 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：:Sperm competition is a potent evolutionary force shaping the reproductive biology of most animal species. Here, we estimated the heritability of sperm competition success in the promiscuous bulb mite Rhizoglyphus robini. Sperm competition success was measured with the sterile male technique as the proportion of eggs f...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Konior M,Keller L,Radwan J

更新日期：2005-06-01 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：:Twenty-eight spontaneous alterations modifying the hybridization banding pattern of six families of transposable elements (297, Foldback, copia, jockey, P and hobo) have been fixed in a set of mutation-accumulation lines of Drosophila melanogaster. Their effect on fitness has been studied by competition with the origi...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Albornoz J,Domínguez A

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The polyploid Salix alba-Salix fragilis hybrid complex is rather difficult to study when using only morphological characters. Most of the features have a low diagnostic value for unambiguously identifying the hybrids, introgression patterns and population structures, though morphological traits have proved to be usefu...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Triest L,De Greef B,De Bondt R,Van Slycken J

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An examination of the chiasma distribution in chromosome 1 of male mice homozygous and heterozygous for a distal inversion In(1) 12Rk and in normal males was carried out. No differences in chiasma distribution were found between homozygotes for the inversion and homozygotes for normal chromosome 1. A significant decre...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Gorlov IP,Ladygina T Yu,Serov OL,Borodin PM

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patterns of pollen dispersal are central to both the ecology and evolution of plant populations. However, the mechanisms controlling either the dispersal process itself or our estimation of that process may be influenced by site-specific factors such as local forest structure and nonuniform adult genetic structure. He...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Dyer RJ,Westfall RD,Sork VL,Smouse PE

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the first sex-linked loci in Oncorhynchus mykiss (rainbow trout). Previous cytological and breeding experiments have demonstrated an XX/XY sex determining system in this and other salmonid species. Joint segregation data from fathers indicated an average of 8.1 per cent recombination between HEX-2 and the se...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Allendorf FW,Gellman WA,Thorgaard GH

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In early 1992, the European bumblebee, Bombus terrestris, was first seen in Tasmania and currently has spread to most of the island. Here, we report on the genetic structure, using micro-satellites, of the invading population from samples collected in the years 1998-2000, a few years after the first sighting of the sp...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Schmid-Hempel P,Schmid-Hempel R,Brunner PC,Seeman OD,Allen GR

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How life-history strategies influence the evolution of populations is not well understood. Most existing models stem from the Wright-Fisher model which considers discrete generations and a fixed population size, thus not taking into account any potential consequences of overlapping generations and demographic stochast...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Abu Awad D,Coron C

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Theory presented in a previous paper has been used to provide a description of the responses expected from selection in two or more generations of a selfing series. Optimum two-stages and multi-stage selection programmes are described, for a limited set of circumstances, and compared with the single-stage designs desc...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Cornish MA

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the importance of competition as an evolutionary determinant in natural populations there have been few studies of the genetical control of competitive ability. Here, we report the results of a biometrical analysis of four continuously varying traits which, between them, describe the competitive interactions i...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Hemmat M,Eggleston P

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We established three closed lines of N = 10 for the guppy Poecilia reticulata, to evaluate the relationships among temporal changes in allele frequency, genetic variation and inbreeding depression for a fitness-related trait in small populations. Genetic variation at the allozyme loci, expressed by the proportion of p...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Shikano T,Chiyokubo T,Taniguchi N

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The coefficient of variation of estimates of three genetic distances (standard genetic distance of Nei, chord distance, FST) was examined with computer simulation to determine if large samples (per population) are necessary to precisely estimate genetic distances at loci with high levels of polymorphism. These simulat...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Kalinowski ST

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Local patterns of genetic variation were analysed in the land snail Helix aspersa for 32 populations sampled within a patchy agricultural landscape: the polders of the Bay of Mont-Saint-Michel (France). This investigation examined the allele frequencies at four enzymatic markers and five microsatellite loci through th...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Arnaud JF,Madec L,Guiller A,Deunff J

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00