Rearing environment affects the genetic architecture and plasticity of DNA methylation in Chinook salmon.

abstract：:A high-resolution transcript linkage map of barley was created using a single doubled haploid (DH) mapping population, only 3'-end expressed sequence tags (ESTs) and only PCR-based assays. Cultivar 'Haruna Nijo' and an ancestral wild-form accession 'H602' were used as EST donors and crossing parents of the mapping pop...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Sato K,Nankaku N,Takeda K

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many traits including shapes and colors of flowers, fruits and seeds in plants, as well as coat colors and some behavioral properties in animals, are recorded in discrete categories. If categories are ordered, genetic analyses of the categorical traits are often performed using the threshold model, which considers a l...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Hayashi T,Awata T

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dispersal in most plants is mediated by the movement of seeds and pollen, which move genes across the landscape differently. Grevillea macleayana is a rare, fire-dependent Australian shrub with large seeds lacking adaptations for dispersal; yet it produces inflorescences adapted to pollination by highly mobile vertebr...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： England PR,Whelan RJ,Ayre DJ

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The a priori probability of noticeable linkage among all conceivable experiments of the size reported by Mendel cannot reasonably be taken as greater than 24-36 per cent; and therefore, the frequently heard opinion that his chances of encountering linkage were high, approaching 99-4 per cent, appears to be mistaken. ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Douglas L,Novitski E

更新日期：1977-04-01 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：: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：: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：:Here I develop the idea that ubiquitous harmful genome-wide mutation with local differentiation favors dispersal, even though migration reduces average fitness. Historical contingency of the mutational process means that demes (sub-populations) differentiate from one another. Deleterious or lethal partially recessive ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Morgan MT

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neotropical fish, Hoplias malabaricus, is well known for its population-specific karyotypic diversity and the variation of its sex chromosomes. Seven karyomorphs (A to G) have been previously described with an XY, X(1)X(2)Y and XY(1)Y(2) sex chromosome system found in karyomorphs B, D and G, respectively. We compa...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Cioffi MB,Bertollo LA

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since transgenic crops expressing Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) toxins were first released, resistance evolution leading to failure in control of pests populations has been observed in a number of species. Field resistance of the moth Busseola fusca was acknowledged 8 years after Bt maize was introduced in South Africa....

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Campagne P,Capdevielle-Dulac C,Pasquet R,Cornell SJ,Kruger M,Silvain JF,LeRü B,Van den Berg J

更新日期：2017-04-01 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：:F-statistics were employed to analyse quantitative and allozyme variation among 19 native populations of maritime pine (Pinus pinaster Ait.). Fourteen polymorphic allozyme loci were used to provide an empirical basis for constructing a null hypothesis to test natural selection as a determinant of quantitative evolutio...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： González-Martínez SC,Alía R,Gil L

更新日期：2002-09-01 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：:A long-standing goal of evolutionary biology is to understand the factors that drive population divergence, local adaptation and speciation. In particular, the effect of selection against dispersers on gene flow and local adaptation has attracted interest, although empirical data on phenotypic characters of dispersers...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Lin J,Quinn TP,Hilborn R,Hauser L

更新日期：2008-10-01 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

abstract：:How does genetic diversity within populations of plants develop during primary succession on alpine glacier forelands? Theory predicts that pioneer populations are characterized by low genetic diversity due to founder effects and that genetic diversity increases within populations as they mature and recurrent gene flo...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Raffl C,Holderegger R,Parson W,Erschbamer B

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flies from a wild type strain of Drosophila melanogaster, previously kept at 25 degrees C, were reared at either 20, 25 or 29 degrees C. As expected, developmental time and adult body size decreased with increasing temperature. Adult longevity of flies reared at 25 degrees C was slightly greater than that of flies rai...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Zwaan BJ,Bijlsma R,Hoekstra RF

更新日期：1992-02-01 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：:Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in both men and women in the US. While most sporadic lung cancer cases are related to environmental factors such as smoking, genetic susceptibility may also play an important role and a number of lung cancer associated single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) have been i...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Lei X,Yuan D,Zhu Z,Huang S

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Allozyme electrophoresis was used to determine amount and structure of genetic variation within and between five congeneric haploid moss species: Polytrichum formosum, P. commune, P. uliginosum, P. piliferum and P. juniperinum. For the different species, gene diversity within populations (HS) ranged from very low (0.0...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Van Der Velde M,Bijlsma R

更新日期：2000-10-01 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：: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：:Competition among individuals is central to our understanding of ecology and population dynamics. However, it could also have major implications for the evolution of resource-dependent life history traits (for example, growth, fecundity) that are important determinants of fitness in natural populations. This is becaus...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Wilson AJ

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic control of self-incompatibility (SI) was studied in the Mediterranean short-lived perennial species Anagallis monelli (Primulaceae: Myrsinaceae). Arrays of siblings, including families derived from reciprocal crosses, were cross-pollinated in full diallels, and compatibility groups were assesssed from a ce...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Talavera S,Gibbs PE,Fernández-Piedra MP,Ortiz-Herrera MA

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Latitudinal variation in thorax and wing size traits was studied in wild-caught flies of the cactophilic Drosophila species, D. aldrichi and D. buzzatii, and their laboratory-reared progeny. The flies originated from five populations in Queensland, Australia, spanning an 800-km transect. The laboratory flies were rear...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Loeschcke V,Bundgaard J,Barker JS

更新日期：2000-11-01 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：:Climatic changes have played major roles in plants' evolutionary history. Glacial oscillations have been particularly important, but some of their effects on plants' populations are poorly understood, including the numbers and locations of refugia in Asian warm temperate zones. In the present study, we investigated th...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Aoki K,Tamaki I,Nakao K,Ueno S,Kamijo T,Setoguchi H,Murakami N,Kato M,Tsumura Y

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A conspicuous shell polychromatism is observed in colonies of Cepaea nemoralis from western France (Brittany). The present study is intended to search for a spatial structure of shell features at this scale and to infer evolutionary processes from the observed patterns. We used a database of morph frequencies (six com...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Bellido A,Madec L,Arnaud JF,Guiller A

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence suggests the frequent occurrence of a simple non-Darwinian (but non-Lamarckian) model for the evolution of adaptive phenotypic traits, here entitled the plasticity-relaxation-mutation (PRM) mechanism. This mechanism involves ancestral phenotypic plasticity followed by specialization in one alternative ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Hughes AL

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00