Natural selection and the heritability of fitness components.

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：:The long generation time and large effective size of widespread forest tree species can result in slow evolutionary rate and incomplete lineage sorting, complicating species delimitation. We addressed this issue with the African timber tree genus Milicia that comprises two morphologically similar and often confounded ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Daïnou K,Mahy G,Duminil J,Dick CW,Doucet JL,Donkpégan AS,Pluijgers M,Sinsin B,Lejeune P,Hardy OJ

更新日期：2014-07-01 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：: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：:Small populations of our study species Ranunculus reptans have reduced fitness because of inbreeding, genetic load, and reduced mate availability; that is, they suffer from a three-fold genetic Allee effect. Here, we investigate how the effect of interpopulation outbreeding on offspring fitness depends on population s...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Willi Y,Fischer M

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The European bison (Bison bonasus) has recovered successfully after a severe bottleneck about 90 years ago but has been left with low genetic variability that may substantially hinder parentage and identity analysis. According to pedigree analysis, over 80% of the genes in the contemporary population descend from just...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Tokarska M,Marshall T,Kowalczyk R,Wójcik JM,Pertoldi C,Kristensen TN,Loeschcke V,Gregersen VR,Bendixen C

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pinewood nematode (Bursaphelenchus xylophilus) is an invasive species that causes a destructive forest disease-pine wilt disease. This disease has been prevalent in some countries in Asia since the 1970s. An amplified fragment length polymorphism survey was used to compare the genetic variation of native and invasive ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Cheng XY,Cheng FX,Xu RM,Xie BY

更新日期：2008-04-01 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

abstract：:Heterozygotes are assumed to mate with a frequency that is any general function, f(v), of their population frequency, v. Models are analysed in which the selection that determines the function f(v) acts either on one sex alone or on both sexes equally. The central equilibrium point v* = 1/2 always exists; it is stable...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： St Lawrence I,O'Donald P

更新日期：1981-08-01 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：: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：:Prevention of malaria transmission throughout much of Africa is dependent on bednets that are impregnated with pyrethroid insecticides. Anopheles arabiensis is the major malaria vector in Chad and efforts to control this vector are threatened by the emergence of pyrethroid resistance. WHO bioassays revealed that An. a...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Witzig C,Parry M,Morgan JC,Irving H,Steven A,Cuamba N,Kerah-Hinzoumbé C,Ranson H,Wondji CS

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parasitic wasps (parasitoids) use volatiles from the plants infested by phytophagous insects to locate host herbivores, but their behavioural response to such semiochemicals is highly variable. Bi-directional selection on Cotesia glomerata (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) was conducted to investigate the importance of geneti...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Wang Q,Gu H,Dorn S

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several classes of models have been suggested to explain how natural selection can favour non-zero recombination. Directional and fluctuating selection, abiotic and biotic, and selection against harmful mutations seem to be the most plausible factors, but little has been done to test the problem experimentally. Here w...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Korol AB,Iliadi KG

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the amount and nature of variation revealed by cDNA-based sequence-tagged-site (STS) markers in Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) using 39 pairs of heterologous primers that were based upon arbitrary genes in black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) B.S.P.). A panel of 22 diverse Norway spruce genotypes w...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Perry DJ,Isabel N,Bousquet J

更新日期：1999-09-01 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：: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：:A technique for the examination of chromosomes in testicular material in Nucella lapillus is described. The diploid chromosome number varies between 26 and 36. Eight pairs of meatcentric chromosomes are always present and range in size from 9mu to 4mu. Additionally, 10 pairs of acrocentric chromosomes (4mu to 1mu) are...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Bantock CR,Cockayne WC

更新日期：1975-04-01 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：:Island colonisation by animal populations is often associated with dramatic shifts in body size. However, little is known about the rates at which these evolutionary shifts occur, under what precise selective pressures and the putative role played by adaptive plasticity on driving such changes. Isolation time played a...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Aubret F

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Variations observed in parasite virulence and host resistance may be the outcome of coevolutionary processes. Recent theoretical developments have led to a 'geographic mosaic theory' of coevolution according to which there are some localities where reciprocal selection occurs (hot spots) and others where it is strongl...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Dupas S,Carton Y,Poiriè M

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The availability of whole genome sequencing (WGS) data enables the discovery of causative single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) or SNPs in high linkage disequilibrium with causative SNPs. This study investigated effects of integrating SNPs selected from imputed WGS data into the data of 54K chip on genomic prediction...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Liu A,Lund MS,Boichard D,Karaman E,Fritz S,Aamand GP,Nielsen US,Wang Y,Su G

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complete D-loop sequences of 20 Mus from three localities in Turkey and seven in Iran were characterized. These countries are thought to be close to the place of origin of the subspecies Mus musculus domesticus. Five new M. m. domesticus haplotypes were added to the nine already known for the region. Four of these 14 ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Gündüz I,Tez C,Malikov V,Vaziri A,Polyakov AV,Searle JB

更新日期：2000-04-01 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：: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：:In this work we report the development and characterization of 10 microsatellite loci for the endangered tree species Caryocar brasiliense. Using genomic library enrichment, the efficiency of SSR marker development was 14.4% from sequencing data to operationally useful loci. Primer sequences for this set of 10 loci ar...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Collevatti RG,Brondani RV,Grattapaglia D

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trichogramma wasps can be rendered asexual by infection with the maternally inherited symbiont Wolbachia. Previous studies indicate the Wolbachia strains infecting Trichogramma wasps are host-specific, inferred by failed horizontal transfer of Wolbachia to novel Trichogramma hosts. Additionally, Trichogramma can becom...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Lindsey ARI,Stouthamer R

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nothofagus cunninghamii is a long-lived, wind-pollinated tree species that dominates the cool temperate rainforests of southeastern Australia. The species' distribution is more or less continuous in western Tasmania but is fragmented elsewhere. However, it is unknown whether this fragmentation has affected the species...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Duncan CJ,Worth JR,Jordan GJ,Jones RC,Vaillancourt RE

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Host-plant resistance is an effective method for controlling soybean aphid (Aphis glycines Matsumura), the most damaging insect pest of soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) in North America. Recently, resistant soybean lines have been discovered and at least four aphid resistance genes (Rag1, Rag2, Rag3 and rag4) have bee...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Jun TH,Rouf Mian MA,Michel AP

更新日期：2013-07-01 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