Systematic Genetic Screen for Transcriptional Regulators of the Candida albicans White-Opaque Switch.

abstract：:Stem cells have a fascinating biology and offer great prospects for therapeutic applications, stimulating intense research on what controls their properties and behavior. Although there have been significant advances in our understanding of how local microenvironments, or niches, control the maintenance and activity o...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Drummond-Barbosa D

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When ultraviolet-irradiated bacteriophage T4 is assayed at plating temperatures ranging from 20 degrees to 40 degrees, its survival increases at the higher temperatures. This "thermal rescue" requires an intact WXY system but not the denV pyrimidine dimer excision system. Mutation rates decrease with increasing temper...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Conkling MA,Drake JW

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Double-strand DNA breaks can be repaired by any of several alternative mechanisms that differ greatly in the nature of the final repaired products. We used a reporter construct, designated "Repair reporter 3" (Rr3), to measure the relative usage of these pathways in Drosophila germ cells. The method works by creating ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Preston CR,Flores CC,Engels WR

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All living organisms require nutrient minerals for growth and have developed mechanisms to acquire, utilize, and store nutrient minerals effectively. In the aqueous cellular environment, these elements exist as charged ions that, together with protons and hydroxide ions, facilitate biochemical reactions and establish ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Cyert MS,Philpott CC

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants with mutations in one of three maize genes, mop1, rmr1, and rmr2, are defective in paramutation, an allele-specific interaction that leads to meiotically heritable chromatin changes. Experiments reported here demonstrate that these genes are required to maintain the transcriptional silencing of two different tr...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： McGinnis KM,Springer C,Lin Y,Carey CC,Chandler V

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of a virus population to colonize a novel host is predicted to depend on the equilibrium frequency of potential colonists (i.e., genotypes capable of infecting the novel host) in the source population. In this study, we investigated the determinants of the equilibrium frequency of potential colonists in th...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Ferris MT,Joyce P,Burch CL

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A model system for studying double-strand-break (DSB)-induced genetic recombination in vivo based on the ets1 segCDelta strain of bacteriophage T4 was developed. The ets1, a 66-bp DNA fragment of phage T2L containing the cleavage site for the T4 SegC site-specific endonuclease, was inserted into the proximal part of t...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Shcherbakov V,Granovsky I,Plugina L,Shcherbakova T,Sizova S,Pyatkov K,Shlyapnikov M,Shubina O

更新日期：2002-10-01 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 have characterized Unstable factor for orange1 (Ufo1), a dominant, allele-specific modifier of expression of the maize pericarp color1 (p1) gene. The p1 gene encodes an Myb-homologous transcriptional activator of genes required for biosynthesis of red phlobaphene pigments. The P1-wr allele specifies colorless kerne...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Chopra S,Cocciolone SM,Bushman S,Sangar V,McMullen MD,Peterson T

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Saccharomyces cerevisiae SEN1 gene codes for a nuclear-localized superfamily I helicase. SEN1 is an ortholog of human SETX (senataxin), which has been implicated in the neurological disorders ataxia-ocular apraxia type 2 and juvenile amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Pleiotropic phenotypes conferred by sen1 mutations...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Finkel JS,Chinchilla K,Ursic D,Culbertson MR

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our understanding of the cellular mechanisms by which animals regulate their response to starvation is limited, despite the strong relevance of the problem to major human health issues. The L1 diapause of Caenorhabditis elegans, where first-stage larvae arrest in response to a food-less environment, is an excellent sy...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Cui M,Wang Y,Cavaleri J,Kelson T,Teng Y,Han M

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An analysis of mortality is undertaken in two breeds of pigs: Danish Landrace and Yorkshire. Zero-inflated and standard versions of hierarchical Poisson, binomial, and negative binomial Bayesian models were fitted using Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). The objectives of the study were to investigate whether there is s...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Varona L,Sorensen D

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two strains of Drosophila melanogaster derived from different geographical localities were subjected to selection for fast and slow developmental rate. Four enzyme polymorphisms were monitored for their response to such selection. Significant changes in allele frequencies were effected for the alphaGpdh and 6Pgd polym...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Cavener DR

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Loss or gain of whole chromosomes, or parts of chromosomes, is found in various pathological conditions, such as cancer and aneuploidy, and results from the missegregation of chromosomes during cellular division or abnormal mitotic recombination. We introduce a novel strategy for determining the consequences of segmen...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Duchon A,Besson V,Pereira PL,Magnol L,Hérault Y

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescent in situ hybridization was used to examine the distribution of six abundant long terminal repeat (LTR) retroelements, Opie, Huck, Cinful-1, Prem-2/Ji, Grande, and Tekay/Prem-1 on maize pachytene chromosomes. Retroelement staining in euchromatin was remarkably uniform, even when we included the structurally ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Mroczek RJ,Dawe RK

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circadian clocks organize the metabolism, physiology, and behavior of organisms throughout the day-night cycle by controlling daily rhythms in gene expression at the transcriptional and post-transcriptional levels. While many transcription factors underlying circadian oscillations are known, the splicing factors that ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Beckwith EJ,Hernando CE,Polcowñuk S,Bertolin AP,Mancini E,Ceriani MF,Yanovsky MJ

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Results of immunogenetic, immunochemical and physicochemical investigations on two serum allotypes of swine are reported. The allotypes, designated Lpr1 and Lpr2, have been identified by specific alloprecipitins in agar gel. Genetic studies indicate that the allotypes are specified by two codominant autosomal allelic ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Rapacz J,Hasler-Rapacz J,Kuo WH

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I factors in Drosophila melanogaster are non-LTR retrotransposons that transpose at very high frequencies in the germ line of females resulting from crosses between reactive females (devoid of active I factors) and inducer males (containing active I factors). Constructs containing I factor ORF1 under the control of th...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Malinsky S,Bucheton A,Busseau I

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I have studied nucleotide polymorphism and linkage disequilibrium using multilocus data from 77 fragments, with an average length of fragments of 550 bp, in the deciduous tree Populus tremula (Salicaceae). The frequency spectrum across loci showed a modest excess of mutations segregating at low frequency and a marked ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Ingvarsson PK

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous association analyses showed that variation at major regulatory genes contributes to standing variation for complex traits in Balsas teosinte, the progenitor of maize. This study expands our previous association mapping effort in teosinte by testing 123 markers in 52 candidate genes for association with 31 tra...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Weber AL,Briggs WH,Rucker J,Baltazar BM,de Jesús Sánchez-Gonzalez J,Feng P,Buckler ES,Doebley J

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Saccharomyces cerevisiae mitochondrial endonuclease I-SceI creates a double-strand break as the initiating step in the gene conversional transfer of the omega+ intron to omega- DNA. We have expressed a galactose-inducible synthetic I-SceI gene in the nucleus of yeast that also carries the I-SceI recognition site o...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Plessis A,Perrin A,Haber JE,Dujon B

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neurogenic loci comprise a small group of genes which are required for proper division between the neural and epidermal pathways of differentiation within the neuroectoderm. Loss of neurogenic gene function results in the misrouting of prospective epidermal cells into neuroblasts. A molecular analysis of the neuro...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Yedvobnick B,Smoller D,Young P,Mills D

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines the intrinsic fitness burden associated with RNA polymerase (rpoB) mutations conferring rifampin resistance in Escherichia coli K12 (MG1655) and explores the nature of adaptation to the costs of resistance. Among 28 independent Rif(r) mutants, the per-generation fitness burden (in the absence of ri...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Reynolds MG

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed a comparative study of four subfamilies of olfactory receptor genes first identified in the dog to assess changes in the gene family during mammalian evolution, and to begin linking the dog genetic map to that of humans. The human subfamilies were localized to chromosomes 7, 11, and 19. The two subfamilie...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Issel-Tarver L,Rine J

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:According to theory, F(2) hybrid breakdown (lethality or sterility) is due to incompatibilities between interacting genes of the different species (i.e., the breaking up of coadapted gene complexes). Detection of such incompatibilities is particularly straightforward in haplodiploid species, because virgin F(1) hybrid...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Gadau J,Page RE Jr,Werren JH

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A family of protein kinases regulates translation in response to different cellular stresses by phosphorylation of the alpha subunit of eukaryotic initiation factor-2 (eIF-2alpha). In yeast, an eIF-2alpha kinase, GCN2, functions in translational control in response to amino acid starvation. It is thought that uncharge...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Sood R,Porter AC,Olsen DA,Cavener DR,Wek RC

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conifers are the predominant gymnosperm. The size and complexity of their genomes has presented formidable technical challenges for whole-genome shotgun sequencing and assembly. We employed novel strategies that allowed us to determine the loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) reference genome sequence, the largest genome assem...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Zimin A,Stevens KA,Crepeau MW,Holtz-Morris A,Koriabine M,Marçais G,Puiu D,Roberts M,Wegrzyn JL,de Jong PJ,Neale DB,Salzberg SL,Yorke JA,Langley CH

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular heterogeneity in human breast cancer has challenged diagnosis, prognosis, and clinical treatment. It is well known that molecular subtypes of breast tumors are associated with significant differences in prognosis and survival. Assuming that the differences are attributed to subtype-specific pathways, we then...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Li R,Campos J,Iida J

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We use three allopatric populations of the stalk-eyed fly Teleopsis dalmanni from Southeast Asia to test two predictions made by the sex chromosome drive hypothesis for Haldane's rule. The first is that modifiers that suppress or enhance drive should evolve rapidly and independently in isolated populations. The second...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Wilkinson GS,Christianson SJ,Brand CL,Ru G,Shell W

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During meiotic prophase I, sister chromatid cohesion is established in a way that supports the assembly of the synaptonemal complex (SC). The SC connects homologous chromosomes, directing meiotic recombination to create crossovers. In this paper, we identify two proteins that cooperate to import and load meiotic cohes...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Bowman R,Balukof N,Ford T,Smolikove S

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00