Genome-wide association study reveals the genetic determinism of growth traits in a Gushi-Anka F2 chicken population.

abstract：:The genetic structure of 13 populations of the amphiatlantic sea urchin Arbacia lixula, as well as temporal genetic changes in three of these localities, were assessed using ten hypervariable microsatellite loci. This thermophilous sea urchin is an important engineer species triggering the formation of barren grounds ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Pérez-Portela R,Wangensteen OS,Garcia-Cisneros A,Valero-Jiménez C,Palacín C,Turon X

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies concerning molecular mechanisms of genetic recombination in eukaryotes are reviewed. Since many of these studies have focused on the testable predictions arising from the hybrid DNA theory of genetic recombination, this theory is summarised. Experiments to determine the time of meiotic crossing-over and...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Pukkila PJ

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies in empirical population genetics have highlighted the importance of taking into account both neutral and adaptive genetic variation in characterizing microevolutionary dynamics. Here, we explore the genetic population structure and the footprints of selection in four populations of the warm-temperate co...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Coscia I,Vogiatzi E,Kotoulas G,Tsigenopoulos CS,Mariani S

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To address the multiple challenges to food security posed by global climate change, population growth and rising incomes, plant breeders are developing new crop varieties that can enhance both agricultural productivity and environmental sustainability. Current breeding practices, however, are unable to keep pace with ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Spindel JE,Begum H,Akdemir D,Collard B,Redoña E,Jannink JL,McCouch S

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arctic-alpine plants have enormous ranges in the Northern Hemisphere. Phylogeographic studies have provided insights into their glacial survival as well as their postglacial colonization history. However, our understanding of the population dynamics of disjunct alpine populations in temperate regions remains limited. ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Ikeda H,Sakaguchi S,Yakubov V,Barkalov V,Setoguchi H

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How do morphological differences between species evolve at the genetic level? This study investigates the genetic basis of recent divergence in male wing size between species of the model parasitoid wasp Nasonia. The forewings of flightless Nasonia vitripennis males are 2.3 times smaller than males of their flighted s...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Loehlin DW,Enders LS,Werren JH

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The polyploid Salix alba-Salix fragilis hybrid complex is rather difficult to study when using only morphological characters. Most of the features have a low diagnostic value for unambiguously identifying the hybrids, introgression patterns and population structures, though morphological traits have proved to be usefu...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Triest L,De Greef B,De Bondt R,Van Slycken J

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crop modelling has so far contributed little to the genetic analysis of a quantitative trait. This study illustrates how a simple model for crop phenological development, which assumes that crop development rate is affected by daily effective temperature, can assist the identification of Quantitative Trait Loci (QTLs)...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Yin X,Kropff MJ,Stam P

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Segregation distortion is the phenomenon whereby the observed genotypic frequencies of a locus fall outside the expected Mendelian segregation ratio, and it is increasingly recognised as a potentially powerful evolutionary force. The main reason for segregation distortion is a difference in the viability of gametes an...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Tang ZX,Wang XF,Zhang MZ,Zhang YH,Deng DX,Xu CW

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cline in the frequency of melanic morphs of the two-spot ladybird, Adalia bipunctata, was first surveyed in 1980 along a transect extending inland from the coast in the Netherlands. At that time, the frequency of melanics increased over some 40 km from 10% near the coast to nearly 60% inland. Additional surveys made...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Brakefield PM,de Jong PW

更新日期：2011-12-01 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：:Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) was used to localize two transgenes (gus and bar), carried on plasmids pACT-1F and pUBA, respectively, on mitotic metaphase squashes of T1 plants of the cultivated hexaploid oat Avena sativa L. cotransformed by microprojectile bombardment of embryogenic callus. Among the eight...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Leggett JM,Perret SJ,Harper J,Morris P

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are only few studies of dominance effects in non-inbred aquaculture species, since commonly used mating designs often have low power to separate dominance, maternal and common environmental effects. Here, a factorial design with reciprocal cross, common rearing of eggs and subsequent lifecycle stages and pedigre...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Joshi R,Woolliams JA,Meuwissen T,Gjøen HM

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic selection (GS) potentially offers an unparalleled advantage over traditional pedigree-based selection (TS) methods by reducing the time commitment required to carry out a single cycle of tree improvement. This quality is particularly appealing to tree breeders, where lengthy improvement cycles are the norm. We...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Ratcliffe B,El-Dien OG,Klápště J,Porth I,Chen C,Jaquish B,El-Kassaby YA

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue and blood samples from 180 fallow deer (Dama dama L.) belonging to an Italian free-ranging population were studied for biochemical variability by means of cellulose acetate and polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The 51 putative genetic loci successfully resolved showed a very low level of variability (P = 0.02...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Randi E,Apollonio M

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic selection has become a reality in plant breeding programs with the reduction in genotyping costs. Especially in maize breeding programs, it emerges as a promising tool for predicting hybrid performance. The dynamics of a commercial breeding program involve the evaluation of several traits simultaneously in a l...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： de Oliveira AA,Resende MFR Jr,Ferrão LFV,Amadeu RR,Guimarães LJM,Guimarães CT,Pastina MM,Margarido GRA

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The field of ecological genomics seeks to understand the genetic mechanisms underlying responses of organisms to their natural environments. This is being achieved through the application of functional genomic approaches to identify and characterize genes with ecological and evolutionary relevance. By its very nature,...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Ungerer MC,Johnson LC,Herman MA

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary sex-determining signal in the haplodiploid wasp Nasonia vitripennis is not known. In haplodiploid reproduction, unfertilized eggs typically develop into uniparental haploid males and fertilized eggs into biparental diploid females. Although this reproductive strategy is common to all Hymenoptera, sex-deter...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Trent C,Crosby C,Eavey J

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many first-generation interspecific hybrids between the five species of the Drosophila virilis subgroup are fertile. Fertile hybrids can be utilized in the analysis of sterile hybrids, by creating new combinations of genetic elements to identify cross-incompatible chromosomes or chromosome segments. Here, crosses star...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Heikkinen E,Lumme J

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whether or not evolution by natural selection is predictable depends on the existence of general patterns shaping the way mutations interact with the genetic background. This interaction, also known as epistasis, has been observed during adaptation (macroscopic epistasis) and in individual mutations (microscopic epist...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Passagem-Santos D,Zacarias S,Perfeito L

更新日期：2018-11-01 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：:The ubiquity of satellite DNA (satDNA) sequences has raised much controversy over the abundance of divergent monomer variants and the long-time nucleotide sequence stability observed for many satDNA families. In this work, we describe the satDNA BIV160, characterized in nine species of the three main bivalve clades (P...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Plohl M,Petrović V,Luchetti A,Ricci A,Satović E,Passamonti M,Mantovani B

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite of a growing interest in considering the role of sociological factors in seed exchanges and their consequences on the evolutionary dynamics of agro-biodiversity, very few studies assessed the link between ethno-linguistic diversity and genetic diversity patterns in small-holder farming systems. This is key for...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Naino Jika AK,Dussert Y,Raimond C,Garine E,Luxereau A,Takvorian N,Djermakoye RS,Adam T,Robert T

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comprehensive long-term studies of isolated populations provide valuable comparative data that may be used to evaluate different methods for quantifying the relationship between genetic diversity and fitness. Here, we report on data collected from large and well-characterized cohorts of the two numerically dominant sp...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Markert JA,Grant PR,Grant BR,Keller LF,Coombs JL,Petren K

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We dissected the relationship between genetic differentiation (Q(ST)) for a trait and its underlying genes (G(STq), differentiation for a quantitative locus) in an evolutionary context, with the aim of identifying the conditions in which these two measurements are decoupled. We used two parameters (θ(B) and θ(W)) scal...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Kremer A,Le Corre V

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the mosquito Culex pipiens, over-production of esterases is a common insecticide resistance mechanism. Different alleles at the esterase A and B loci are known to occur in natural populations, as shown by enzyme electrophoresis and RFLP studies on the esterase B locus. Here we analyse the variability of the esteras...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Guillemaud T,Rooker S,Pasteur N,Raymond M

更新日期：1996-11-01 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：:Podisma pedestris exists as both an XO and neoXY form in the Southern French Alps. These chromosome types are shown to be contiguously allopatric and hybrid populations have been located in several places. Hybridisation appears to be occurring freely, but the hybrid zones are quite narrow. In several places the two di...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Hewitt GM

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five Indian natural populations of Drosophila ananassae were analysed for chromosome inversions and the presence of individuals with extra scutellar bristles in the F1 progeny of isofemale lines initiated from naturally impregnated females. Three commonly occurring inversions were found in these populations with varyi...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Das A,Mohanty S,Parida BB

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alcohol dehydrogenase activity has been measured in 186 iso-second chromosome lines--104 from seven Australian populations and 82 from six Chinese populations. Restriction endonuclease variation in the Adh gene region in these lines has previously been described (Jiang & Gibson, 1991). The mean ADH activity of AdhF an...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Jiang JC,Gibson JB

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00