Effects of acclimation time and epigenetic mechanisms on growth of Neurospora in fluctuating environments.

abstract：:Using fast-evolving microsatellites, more slowly evolving ITS markers and performing habitat analyses, we demonstrated a drastic genetic divergence and significant habitat differentiation between early- and late-flowering variants of plants morphologically belonging to Gymnadenia conopsea ssp conopsea. The two phenolo...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Gustafsson S,Lönn M

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although allelic variants at a locus usually are expressed either dominantly or co-dominantly, there are many cases when a gene is dominantly expressed in some individuals and co-dominantly in others. We present a maximum-likelihood procedure for allele frequency estimation in such situations of "incomplete" co-domina...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Jorde PE,Ryman N

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolve and resequence (E&R) is a new approach to investigate the genomic responses to selection during experimental evolution. By using whole genome sequencing of pools of individuals (Pool-Seq), this method can identify selected variants in controlled and replicable experimental settings. Reviewing the current state ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Schlötterer C,Kofler R,Versace E,Tobler R,Franssen SU

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant breeders are supported by a range of tools that assist them to make decisions about the conduct or design of plant breeding programs. Simulations are a strategic tool that enables the breeder to integrate the multiple components of a breeding program into a number of proposed scenarios that are compared by a ran...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Hoyos-Villegas V,Arief VN,Yang WH,Sun M,DeLacy IH,Barrett BA,Jahufer Z,Basford KE

更新日期：2019-05-01 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：: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：: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：:Infectious diseases have a huge impact on animal health, production and welfare, and human health. Understanding the role of host genetics in disease spread is important for developing disease control strategies that efficiently reduce infection incidence and risk of epidemics. While heritable variation in disease sus...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Tsairidou S,Anacleto O,Woolliams JA,Doeschl-Wilson A

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive hybrids and their spread dynamics pose unique opportunities to study evolutionary processes. Invasive hybrids of native Spartina foliosa and introduced S. alterniflora have expanded throughout San Francisco Bay intertidal habitats within the past 35 years by deliberate plantation and seeds floating on the tid...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Sloop CM,Ayres DR,Strong DR

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Araucaria araucana (Monkey Puzzle), a southern South American tree species of exceptional cultural and economic importance, is of conservation concern owing to extensive historical clearance and current human pressures. Random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) markers were used to characterise genetic heterogeneity wit...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Bekessy SA,Allnutt TR,Premoli AC,Lara A,Ennos RA,Burgman MA,Cortes M,Newton AC

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:North Africa is now recognized as a major area for the emergence and dispersal of anatomically modern humans from at least 315 kya. The Mediterranean Basin is thus particularly suited to study the role of climate versus human-mediated changes on the evolutionary history of species. The Algerian mouse (Mus spretus Lata...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Lalis A,Mona S,Stoetzel E,Bonhomme F,Souttou K,Ouarour A,Aulagnier S,Denys C,Nicolas V

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estimating kinship is fundamental for studies of evolution, conservation, and breeding. Genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) and other restriction based genotyping methods have become widely applied in these applications in non-model organisms. However, sequencing errors, depth, and reproducibility between library preps cou...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Hall D,Zhao W,Wennström U,Andersson Gull B,Wang XR

更新日期：2020-05-01 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：:Wolbachia are symbiotic bacteria that induce a diversity of phenotypes on their numerous invertebrate host species. In the wasp Asobara tabida (Braconidae), each individual harbours three Wolbachia strains: wAtab3, which is required for host oogenesis, and wAtab1 and wAtab2, that do not have this function but induce c...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Dedeine F,Boulétreau M,Vavre F

更新日期：2005-11-01 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：:We review and discuss the importance of correlational selection (selection for optimal character combinations) in natural populations. If two or more traits subject to multivariate selection are heritable, correlational selection builds favourable genetic correlations through the formation of linkage disequilibrium at...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Sinervo B,Svensson E

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cultural transmission may depend on the non-genetic transfer of information from parent to offspring. The consequences of such cultural transmission for continuous variation are investigated theoretically for randomly mating populations. Cultural inheritance may act on genetical and environmental differences between i...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Eaves L

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examine seven geographically separate subpopulations of Heliconius charithonia, a butterfly with well-documented home range behaviour, in Miami-Dade County, Florida, for genetic differentiation using cellulose acetate electrophoresis. These subpopulations exhibit little genetic variation (percent polymorphic loci =...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Kronforst MR,Fleming TH

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sibling species Anopheles atroparvus and Anopheles labranchiae are cytogenetically almost indistinguishable. The chromosome complement (2n = 6) consists of two pairs of autosomes and two heteromorphic sex chromosomes with largely homologous heterochromatic long arms. Treatment of chromosome preparations with the r...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Marchi A,Mezzanotte R

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hieracium pilosella: (Asteraceae) was accidentally introduced to New Zealand about 100 years ago. Since then it has become an aggressive weed, and an unexpected degree of genetic and genome size variation has been detected; features that might result from interspecies hybridization. We investigated the possibility tha...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Morgan-Richards M,Trewick SA,Chapman HM,Krahulcova A

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deciphering the colonization processes by which introduced pests invade new areas is essential to limit the risk of further expansion and/or multiple introductions. We here studied the invasion history of the maritime pine bast scale Matsucoccus feytaudi. This host-specific insect does not cause any damage in its nati...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Kerdelhué C,Boivin T,Burban C

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The central aim of evolutionary biology is to understand patterns of genetic variation between species and within populations. To quantify the genetic variation underlying intraspecific differences, estimating quantitative genetic parameters of traits is essential. In Pterygota, wing morphology is an important trait a...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Xia S,Pannebakker BA,Groenen MAM,Zwaan BJ,Bijma P

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A general prediction of the neutral theory of evolution is that genetic diversity should correlate positively with effective population size. We show here that diversity across eight microsatellite loci was consistently and substantially lower in one common amphibian (Bufo bufo) than in another with similar life histo...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Brede EG,Beebee TJ

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differences in mating time between populations can give rise to premating reproductive isolation. Tephritid fruit flies exhibit large variation in mating time among intra- or inter-specific populations. We previously cloned the clock gene period from two strains of melon fly, Bactrocera cucurbitae; in one the individu...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Fuchikawa T,Sanada S,Nishio R,Matsumoto A,Matsuyama T,Yamagishi M,Tomioka K,Tanimura T,Miyatake T

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chicken growth traits are economically important, but the relevant genetic mechanisms have not yet been elucidated. Herein, we performed a genome-wide association study to identify the variants associated with growth traits. In total, 860 chickens from a Gushi-Anka F2 resource population were phenotyped for 68 growth ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Zhang Y,Wang Y,Li Y,Wu J,Wang X,Bian C,Tian Y,Sun G,Han R,Liu X,Jiang R,Wang Y,Li G,Li W,Hu X,Kang X

更新日期：2020-09-28 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：:A type of lower motor neuron (LMN) disease inherited as autosomal recessive in Romney sheep was characterized with normal appearance at birth, but with progressive weakness and tetraparesis after the first week of life. Here, we carried out genome-wide homozygosity mapping using Illumina Ovine SNP50 BeadChips on lambs...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Zhao X,Onteru SK,Dittmer KE,Parton K,Blair HT,Rothschild MF,Garrick DJ

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Allozyme analysis on 20 putative enzyme-coding loci and RAPD analysis on 154 markers, amplified by eight decamer random primers, were used to assess the genetic variation of striped red mullet, Mullus surmuletus L., collected from six locations in the Mediterranean Sea. Both methods were able to detect a high degree o...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Mamuris Z,Stamatis C,Triantaphyllidis C

更新日期：1999-07-01 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：:Fisher's model for the evolution of dominance indicates that the accumulation of dominance modifiers will be accelerated by (1) an increased frequency of the mutant heterozygote, (2) increased selection for the phenotype of the normal homozygote. The model has been criticised by Haldane on the grounds that point (1) i...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Manning JT

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00