Transmission ratio distortion is frequent in Arabidopsis thaliana controlled crosses.

abstract：:The study of local adaptation is rendered difficult by many evolutionary confounding phenomena (for example, genetic drift and demographic history). When complex traits are involved in local adaptation, phenomena such as phenotypic plasticity further hamper evolutionary biologists to study the complex relationships be...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： de Villemereuil P,Gaggiotti OE,Mouterde M,Till-Bottraud I

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a study of fine-scale spatial genetic structure (SGS) and assess the impact of seed and pollen dispersal on the pattern of genetic diversity in the predominantly selfing Hordeum spontaneum. The study included (1) direct measurement of dispersal in a controlled environment, and (2) analyses of SGS and estima...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Volis S,Zaretsky M,Shulgina I

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural populations of the arctic fox (Alopex lagopus, Canidae, Carnivora) differ drastically in their reproductive strategy. Coastal foxes, which depend on stable food resources, produce litters of moderate size. Inland foxes feed on small rodents, whose populations are characterized by cycling fluctuation. In the ye...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Axenovich TI,Zorkoltseva IV,Akberdin IR,Beketov SV,Kashtanov SN,Zakharov IA,Borodin PM

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analysis was performed to characterize the genetic diversity of Austropotamobius pallipes, a threatened freshwater crayfish native to Europe. Four decamer primers which generated six unambiguous polymorphic bands were used to analyse crayfish from 21 populations sampled in the m...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Gouin N,Grandjean F,Bouchon D,Reynolds JD,Souty-Grosset C

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pedunculate oak and sessile oak are two sympatric interfertile species that exhibit leaf morphological differences. We aimed to detect quantitative trait loci (QTLs) of these traits in order to locate genomic regions involved in species differentiation. A total of 15 leaf morphological traits were assessed in a mixed ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Saintagne C,Bodénès C,Barreneche T,Pot D,Plomion C,Kremer A

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multilocus genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have become the state-of-the-art procedure to identify quantitative trait nucleotides (QTNs) associated with complex traits. However, implementation of multilocus model in GWAS is still difficult. In this study, we integrated least angle regression with empirical Bayes...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Zhang J,Feng JY,Ni YL,Wen YJ,Niu Y,Tamba CL,Yue C,Song Q,Zhang YM

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of organisms on 'terrestrial islands' can improve our understanding of two unresolved issues in evolutionary genetics: the likely long-term effects of habitat fragmentation and the genetic underpinnings of continental species radiations in island-like terrestrial habitats. We have addressed both issues for fou...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Barbará T,Lexer C,Martinelli G,Mayo S,Fay MF,Heuertz M

更新日期：2008-09-01 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：:An important contributor to the differences between individuals derives from their plasticity. Such plasticity is widespread in organisms from the simple to the most complex. Adaptability plasticity enables the organism to cope with a novel challenge not previously encountered by its ancestors. Conditional plasticity ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Bateson P

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It was shown previously that the long lifespan and juvenile phase of trees strongly attenuate founder effects during colonisation in a diffusive dispersal model. However, this model yielded too slow a colonisation rate in comparison with palynological data for temperate forest trees. Since rare long-distance dispersal...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Austerlitz F,Garnier-Géré PH

更新日期：2003-04-01 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：:Genetic segregation was studied in more than 1900 seedlings of an F2 between the maize (Zea mays L.) inbred lines T232 and CM37. Significant segregation distortion was observed at 11 of 17 segregating allozyme loci and at a single morphological marker locus distributed on 7 of the 10 chromosomes in the genome. Deviati...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Wendel JF,Edwards MD,Stuber CW

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pigmentation is one of the most variable traits within and between Drosophila species. Much of this diversity appears to be adaptive, with environmental factors often invoked as selective forces. Here, we describe the geographic structure of pigmentation in Drosophila americana and evaluate the hypothesis that it is a...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Wittkopp PJ,Smith-Winberry G,Arnold LL,Thompson EM,Cooley AM,Yuan DC,Song Q,McAllister BF

更新日期：2011-04-01 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：: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

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：:We have studied in Drosophila melanogaster the effects of allozyme variation at the alpha Gpdh and Adh loci on the following fitness components: female fecundity, egg hatchability, egg-to-adult survival under near-optimal and competitive conditions, rate of development under near-optimal and competitive conditions, an...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Izquierdo JI,Rubio J

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In hybrid zones between genetically differentiated populations, variation in locus-specific rates of introgression may reflect adaptation to different environments or adaptation to different genetic backgrounds. The European rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus, is well-suited to studies of such hybrid zone dynamics because ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Campos R,Storz JF,Ferrand N

更新日期：2008-06-01 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：:Forty-two homozygous lines each isoallelic for the Esterase 6 (Est-6) locus were extracted from a natural population of Drosophila melanogaster. Homogenates of 4-5 day old virgin adults of each sex from several replicate cultures of each line were assayed for EST6 activity. Depending on the line, males had from three ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Game AY,Oakeshott JG

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Empirical evidence is mounting to suggesting that genetic correlations between life-history traits are environment specific. However, detailed knowledge about the loci underlying genetic correlations in different environments is scant. Here, we studied the influence of temperature (12 degrees C and 24 degrees C) on th...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Gutteling EW,Doroszuk A,Riksen JA,Prokop Z,Reszka J,Kammenga JE

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The quantitative genetic properties are derived for the bulk F2 originating from random fertilization (RF) amongst hybrid (F1) individuals. Only its mean appears to have been derived previously, and that definition is confirmed (by another method). New general equations are found also for all genotype frequencies, all...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Gordon IL

更新日期：2000-07-01 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：:Our understanding of the distribution of worldwide human genomic diversity has greatly increased over recent years thanks to the availability of large data sets derived from short tandem repeats (STRs), insertion deletion polymorphisms (indels) and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). A concern, however, is that th...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Romero IG,Manica A,Goudet J,Handley LL,Balloux F

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Indirect genetic effects (IGE) occur when the genotype of an individual affects the phenotypic trait value of another conspecific individual. IGEs can have profound effects on both the magnitude and the direction of response to selection. Models of inheritance and response to selection in traits subject to IGEs have b...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Bijma P

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing attention has been paid to the maternally inherited microbes that are capable of manipulating the reproduction of their hosts for their own benefit. Although several studies have revealed that the host genotype can affect the intensity of the manipulation, the underlying genetic basis is poorly understood. ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Kageyama D,Anbutsu H,Shimada M,Fukatsu T

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Africanization of the honeybee (Apis mellifera) in South America is one of the most spectacular examples of biological invasions. In this study, we analyzed the Africanization process in Central Mexico along an altitudinal transect from 72 to 2800 m, using both mitochondrial and nuclear DNA markers. The mitochondr...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Kraus FB,Franck P,Vandame R

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Habitat fragmentation is a major cause of biodiversity loss, responsible for an alteration of intraspecific patterns of neutral genetic diversity and structure. Although neutral genetic variation can be informative for demographic inferences, it may be a poor predictor of adaptive genetic diversity and thus of the con...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Perrin A,Khimoun A,Faivre B,Ollivier A,de Pracontal N,Théron F,Loubon M,Leblond G,Duron O,Garnier S

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To confirm whether sex-linked genes of the silkworm are dosage compensated or not, we investigated three RAPDs and one RFLP marker which have been mapped to the Z chromosome as candidate genes to test for dosage compensation. Northern blot analysis demonstrated that one of the RAPDs, T15.180a, is transcribed into seve...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Suzuki MG,Shimada T,Kobayashi M

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:P elements, both complete and incomplete, contain a left and right end, normally depicted as pointing away from each other. Here, we examine the properties of P elements that may be described as 're-arranged elements' or 'inside-out elements', containing inverted ends. Two such structures exist, having either ends poi...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Liang X,Sved JA

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00