A cladistic measure of gene flow inferred from the phylogenies of alleles.

abstract：:Chromatin insulators separate active from repressed chromatin domains. In yeast the RNA pol III transcription machinery bound to tRNA genes function with histone acetylases and chromatin remodelers to restrict the spread of heterochromatin. Our results collectively demonstrate that binding of TFIIIC is necessary for i...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Valenzuela L,Dhillon N,Kamakaka RT

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The alpha-Amylase locus in Drosophila pseudoobscura is a multigene family of one, two or three copies on the third chromosome. The nucleotide sequences of the three Amylase genes from a single chromosome of D. pseudoobscura are presented. The three Amylase genes differ at about 0.5% of their nucleotides. Each gene has...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Brown CJ,Aquadro CF,Anderson WW

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The micronutrient boron is essential in maintaining the structure of plant cell walls and is critical for high yields in crop species. Boron can move into plants by diffusion or by active and facilitated transport mechanisms. We recently showed that mutations in the maize boron efflux transporter ROTTEN EAR (RTE) caus...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Chatterjee M,Liu Q,Menello C,Galli M,Gallavotti A

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic screens in Drosophila melanogaster and other organisms have been pursued to filter the genome for genetic functions important for memory formation. Such screens have employed primarily chemical or transposon-mediated mutagenesis and have identified numerous mutants including classical memory mutants, dunce and...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Walkinshaw E,Gai Y,Farkas C,Richter D,Nicholas E,Keleman K,Davis RL

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bisphenol A (BPA) is an organic compound to which human populations are ubiquitously exposed. Epidemiological data suggest BPA exposure might be associated with higher rates of diabetes and reproductive anomalies. Health concerns also include transgenerational consequences, but these mechanisms are crudely defined. Si...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Branco AT,Lemos B

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methodology for mapping quantitative trait loci (QTL) has focused primarily on treating the QTL as a fixed effect. These methods differ from the usual models of genetic variation that treat genetic effects as random. Computationally expensive methods that allow QTL to be treated as random have been explicitly develope...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Zimmer D,Mayer M,Reinsch N

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolutionary models appropriate for analyzing nucleotide sequences that are subject to constraints on secondary structure are developed. The models consider the evolution of pairs of nucleotides, and they incorporate the effects of base-pairing constraints on nucleotide substitution rates by introducing a new paramete...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Muse SV

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To reveal phenotypic and functional genomic patterns of mitonuclear adaptation, a laboratory adaptation study with Caenorhabditis elegans nematodes was conducted in which independently evolving lines were initiated from a low-fitness mitochondrial electron transport chain (ETC) mutant, gas-1 Following 60 generations o...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Wernick RI,Christy SF,Howe DK,Sullins JA,Ramirez JF,Sare M,Penley MJ,Morran LT,Denver DR,Estes S

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circadian ( approximately 24 hr) rhythms of behavior and physiology are driven by molecular clocks that are endogenous to most organisms. The mechanisms underlying these clocks are remarkably conserved across evolution and typically consist of auto-regulatory loops in which specific proteins (clock proteins) rhythmica...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Zheng X,Sehgal A

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolutionary forces shape patterns of genetic diversity within populations and contribute to phenotypic variation. In particular, recurrent positive selection has attracted significant interest in both theoretical and empirical studies. However, most existing theoretical models of recurrent positive selection cannot e...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Uricchio LH,Hernandez RD

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mendelian loci that control the expression levels of transcripts are called expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL). When mapping eQTL, we often deal with thousands of expression traits simultaneously, which complicates the statistical model and data analysis. Two simple approaches may be taken in eQTL analysis: (1)...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Jia Z,Xu S

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Repair of double-strand breaks (DSBs) in chromosomal DNA by nonhomologous end-joining (NHEJ) is not well characterized in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Here we demonstrate that several genes associated with NHEJ perform essential functions in the repair of endonuclease-induced DSBs in vivo. Galactose-induced exp...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Lewis LK,Westmoreland JW,Resnick MA

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The RecQ helicase family is critical during DNA damage repair, and mutations in these proteins are associated with Bloom, Werner, or Rothmund-Thompson syndromes in humans, leading to cancer predisposition and/or premature aging. In the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, mutations in the RecQ homolog, SGS1, phenoc...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Bernstein KA,Mimitou EP,Mihalevic MJ,Chen H,Sunjaveric I,Symington LS,Rothstein R

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Drosophila melanogaster sex-peptide (melSP) is a seminal fluid component that induces postmating responses (PMR) of females via the sex-peptide receptor (SPR) . Although SP orthologs are found in many Drosophila species, their functions remain poorly characterized. It is unknown whether SP functions are conserved ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Tsuda M,Peyre JB,Asano T,Aigaki T

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonautonomous inductive signals from the soma and autonomous signals due to a 2X karyotype determine the sex of Drosophila melanogaster germ cells. These two signals have partially overlapping influences on downstream sex determination genes. The upstream OVO-B transcription factor is required for the viability of 2X ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Andrews J,Oliver B

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selective sweeps are typically associated with a local reduction of genetic diversity around the adaptive site. However, selective sweeps can also quickly carry neutral mutations to observable population frequencies if they arise early in a sweep and hitchhike with the adaptive allele. We show that the interplay betwe...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Messer PW,Neher RA

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitotic fidelity is ensured by achieving biorientation on all paired chromosomes. The key signal for proper chromosome alignment is the tension between sister chromatids created by opposing poleward force from the spindles. In the budding yeast, the tension-sensing function requires that the Shugoshin protein, Shugosh...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Buehl CJ,Deng X,Luo J,Buranasudja V,Hazbun T,Kuo MH

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetically marked P elements inserted into the subtelomeric satellites of Drosophila show repression and variegation of the reporter gene. One such white+ reporter, inserted between the subtelomeric satellite and the terminal HeT-A array in the left arm of chromosome 2 (2L), is sensitive to its context; changes in th...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Golubovsky MD,Konev AY,Walter MF,Biessmann H,Mason JM

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inverted DNA repeats are an at-risk motif for genetic instability that can induce both deletions and recombination in yeast. We investigated the role of the length of inverted repeats and size of the DNA separating the repeats for deletion and recombination. Stimulation of both deletion and recombination was directly ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Lobachev KS,Shor BM,Tran HT,Taylor W,Keen JD,Resnick MA,Gordenin DA

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Collaborative Cross (CC) was designed to facilitate rapid gene mapping and consists of hundreds of recombinant inbred lines descended from eight diverse inbred founder strains. A decade in production, it can now be applied to mapping projects. Here, we provide a proof of principle for rapid identification of major...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Ram R,Mehta M,Balmer L,Gatti DM,Morahan G

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastrulation is fundamental to the development of multicellular animals. Along with neurulation, gastrulation is one of the major processes of morphogenesis in which cells or whole tissues move from the surface of an embryo to its interior. Cell internalization mechanisms that have been discovered to date in Caenorhab...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Goldstein B,Nance J

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a two-part system for conditional FLP-out of FRT-flanked sequences in Caenorhabditis elegans to control gene activity in a spatially and/or temporally regulated manner. Using reporters, we assess the system for efficacy and demonstrate its use as a cell lineage marking tool. In addition, we construct and te...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Voutev R,Hubbard EJ

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specialized insect mouthparts, such as those of Drosophila, are derived from an ancestral mandibulate state, but little is known about the developmental genetics of mandibulate mouthparts. Here, we study the metamorphic patterning of mandibulate mouthparts of the beetle Tribolium castaneum, using RNA interference to d...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Angelini DR,Smith FW,Aspiras AC,Kikuchi M,Jockusch EL

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The small ovary gene (sov) is required for the development of the Drosophila ovary. Six EMS-induced recessive alleles have been identified. Hypomorphic alleles are female sterile and have no effect on male fertility, whereas more severe mutations result in lethality. The female-sterile alleles produce a range of mutan...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Wayne S,Liggett K,Pettus J,Nagoshi RN

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strains of Dictyostelium discoideum resistant to cobaltous chloride have been isolated at a frequency of approximately 10(-6). The resistant strains have one of three phenotypes, recessive to wild type, dominant to wild type and dominant to wild type but requiring the presence of cobaltous chloride to maintain resista...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Williams KL

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic information can be altered by base substitutions, frameshift mutations, and addition or deletion of nucleotides. Deletions represent an important class of genetic aberration occurring at DNA sequences where it is often possible to predict the existence of intermediates of mutation. Instability within tracts of...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Bichara M,Schumacher S,Fuchs RP

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sir2 is a highly conserved NAD+-dependent histone deacetylase that functions in heterochromatin formation and promotes replicative life span (RLS) in the budding yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae Within the yeast rDNA locus, Sir2 is required for efficient cohesin recruitment and maintaining the stability of the tandem a...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Fine RD,Maqani N,Li M,Franck E,Smith JS

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA interference (RNAi) in tissue culture cells has emerged as an excellent methodology for identifying gene functions systematically and in an unbiased manner. Here, we describe how RNAi high-throughput screening (HTS) in Drosophila cells are currently being performed and emphasize the strengths and weaknesses of the...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Perrimon N,Mathey-Prevot B

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant inbred lines (RIL) derived from multiple inbred strains can serve as a powerful resource for the genetic dissection of complex traits. The use of such multiple-strain RIL requires a detailed knowledge of the haplotype structure in such lines. Broman (2005) derived the two- and three-point haplotype probabi...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Teuscher F,Broman KW

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Translocation induced in the immature oocyte, in meiotic prophase, affects division I orientation and segregation, the usual result being that the two halves of translocations are directed to opposite poles. Since interchange is usually (if not exclusively) between chromatids, this is to be expected from the creation ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Parker DR,Williamson JH

更新日期：1974-09-01 00:00:00