A maximum-likelihood estimation of pairwise relatedness for autopolyploids.

abstract：:The expression of phenotypic plasticity may differ among life stages of the same organism. Age-dependent plasticity can be important for adaptation to heterogeneous environments, but this has only recently been recognized. Whether age-dependent plasticity is a common outcome of local adaptation and whether populations...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Nilsson-Örtman V,Rogell B,Stoks R,Johansson F

更新日期：2015-10-01 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：:Volunteers deriving from unharvested seeds of a crop can lead to persistent feral populations and participate in genetic exchanges across the agro-ecosystem, both between crop varieties and between crops and their wild relatives. A first step to understand the importance of volunteers is to characterize their capacity...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Ostrowski MF,Rousselle Y,Tsitrone A,Santoni S,David J,Reboud X,Muller MH

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic diversity is a fundamental requirement for evolution and adaptation. Nonetheless, the forces that maintain patterns of genetic variation in wild populations are not completely understood. Neutral theory posits that genetic diversity will increase with a larger effective population size and the decreasing effec...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Hague MT,Routman EJ

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene flow was investigated in Anopheles gambiae from eight localities that span the ecological zones of Nigeria (arid savanna zones in the north gradually turn into humid forest zones in the south). Genetic differentiation was measured over 10 microsatellite loci and, to determine any effects of selection, five loci w...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Onyabe DY,Conn JE

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent molecular evidence has shown that many MHC polymorphisms are not only shared between species but are in fact identical at the molecular level. Species that share these polymorphisms may be very distantly related and often diverged millions of generations ago. It is now known that this phenomenon is very unlikel...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Golding B

更新日期：1992-03-01 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：:Genomic resources developed for domesticated species provide powerful tools for studying the evolutionary history of their wild relatives. Here we use 61K single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) evenly spaced throughout the canine nuclear genome to analyse evolutionary relationships among the three largest European pop...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Pilot M,Greco C,vonHoldt BM,Jędrzejewska B,Randi E,Jędrzejewski W,Sidorovich VE,Ostrander EA,Wayne RK

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterozygotes are assumed to mate with a frequency that is any general function, f(v), of their population frequency, v. Models are analysed in which the selection that determines the function f(v) acts either on one sex alone or on both sexes equally. The central equilibrium point v* = 1/2 always exists; it is stable...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： St Lawrence I,O'Donald P

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The estimation of heritabilities and genetic correlations is based on the assumption that the trait distributions are normal. When the distributions are not normal it is advisable to transform the data to produce normality. However, it is possible that no suitable transformation can be found. The purpose of the presen...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Roff DA

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effective population size over a generation (Ne) or over a reproductive cycle (Nb) and the adult census size (Nc) are important parameters in both conservation and evolutionary biology. Ne provides information regarding the rate of loss of genetic diversity and can be tracked back in time to infer demographic history ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Ferchaud AL,Perrier C,April J,Hernandez C,Dionne M,Bernatchez L

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rainforests in Australia and around the world have been extensively cleared and degraded. It is essential to recognize the changes in population diversity and dynamics that follow habitat fragmentation if better conservation and management strategies are to be developed. This study is an investigation of the medium te...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Rossetto M,Jones R,Hunter J

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prolific breeds of domestic sheep (Ovis aries) are important genetic resources due to their reproductive performance, which is characterized by multiple lambs per birth and out-of-season breeding. However, the lack of a comprehensive understanding of the genetic mechanisms underlying the important reproductive traits,...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Yang J,Li X,Cao YH,Pokharel K,Hu XJ,Chen ZH,Xu SS,Peippo J,Honkatukia M,Kantanen J,Li MH

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the context of frequency-dependent selection, the effect of conditioning the medium, by the previous culture of larvae of a given strain, on the survival of subsequent larvae of the same or different strains was measured. Six strains were sued, some inbred and some lines selected for low or high sternopleural brist...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Dolan R,Robertson A

更新日期：1975-12-01 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：:Many Odonata species exhibit female-limited polymorphisms, where one morph is similar to the conspecific male in body color and other traits (andromorph), whereas one or more other morphs differ from the male (gynomorphs). Here we investigated the differentially expressed transcripts (DETs) among males and two female ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Takahashi M,Takahashi Y,Kawata M

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phytophagous insects that damage crops are often polyphagous, feeding on several types of crop and on weeds. The refuges constituted by noncrop host plants may be useful in managing the evolution in pest species of resistance to the Bacillus thuringiensis toxins produced by transgenic crops. However, the benefits ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Martel C,Réjasse A,Rousset F,Bethenod MT,Bourguet D

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Host-plant resistance is an effective method for controlling soybean aphid (Aphis glycines Matsumura), the most damaging insect pest of soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) in North America. Recently, resistant soybean lines have been discovered and at least four aphid resistance genes (Rag1, Rag2, Rag3 and rag4) have bee...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Jun TH,Rouf Mian MA,Michel AP

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated genetic diversity among and within natural populations of Asian common wild rice, Oryza rufipogon, from three different classes of data: quantitative traits, allozymes, and restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs). The seven populations examined showed polymorphism to varying degrees. The amou...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Cai HW,Wang XK,Morishima H

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of transposable elements can be induced by environmental and population factors and in particular by stresses in various organisms. A consequence of the increase in transposable element mobility is the creation of new genetic variability that can be useful in the face of stressful conditions. In this revi...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Capy P,Gasperi G,Biémont C,Bazin C

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The widespread and locally massive introgression of Y chromosomes of the eastern house mouse (Mus musculus musculus) into the range of the western subspecies (M. m. domesticus) in Central Europe calls for an explanation of its underlying mechanisms. Given the paternal inheritance pattern, obvious candidates for traits...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Bímová BV,Macholán M,Ďureje Ľ,Bímová KB,Martincová I,Piálek J

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ubiquity of satellite DNA (satDNA) sequences has raised much controversy over the abundance of divergent monomer variants and the long-time nucleotide sequence stability observed for many satDNA families. In this work, we describe the satDNA BIV160, characterized in nine species of the three main bivalve clades (P...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Plohl M,Petrović V,Luchetti A,Ricci A,Satović E,Passamonti M,Mantovani B

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of environmental conditions on the expression of genetic variance and on maternal effects variance remains an important question in evolutionary quantitative genetics. We investigate here the effects of early environment on variation in seven adult life history, morphological, and secondary sexual traits (i...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Vega-Trejo R,Head ML,Jennions MD,Kruuk LEB

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nothofagus cunninghamii is a long-lived, wind-pollinated tree species that dominates the cool temperate rainforests of southeastern Australia. The species' distribution is more or less continuous in western Tasmania but is fragmented elsewhere. However, it is unknown whether this fragmentation has affected the species...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Duncan CJ,Worth JR,Jordan GJ,Jones RC,Vaillancourt RE

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Echinoderms represent a researchable subset of a dynamic larval evolutionary cosmos. Evolution of echinoderm larvae has taken place over widely varying time scales from the origins of larvae of living classes in the early Palaeozoic, approximately 500 million years ago, to recent, rapid and large-scale changes that ha...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Raff RA,Byrne M

更新日期：2006-09-01 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：:Colonizing events may expose organisms to physical and ecological environments found nowhere else in their range. Novel selection pressures can then influence subsequent rapid evolutionary changes. Here, I investigate the genetics of one such rapid change in the sexual signal of Polynesian field crickets, Teleogryllus...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Tinghitella RM

更新日期：2008-03-01 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：: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：:Allele frequency differences between sexes and an excess of heterozygotes in males had suggested that the PEPB-1 locus is sex-linked in chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha). We here estimate less than 1% recombination between PEPB-1 and a growth hormone pseudogene known to be in the sex-determining region (SEX) i...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Marshall AR,Knudsen KL,Allendorf FW

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00