Counteracting Environmental Chemicals with Coenzyme Q10: An Educational Primer for Use with "Antioxidant CoQ10 Restores Fertility by Rescuing Bisphenol A-Induced Oxidative DNA Damage in the Caenorhabditis elegans Germline".

abstract：:A major correlation has been found between the incidence of glucocorticoid-induced cleft palate and the chromosome 8 segment identified by N-acetyl transferase in mice. The resistant strain became fully susceptible while the susceptible strain became resistant when this chromosomal region, representing less than 0.7% ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Karolyi J,Erickson RP,Liu S,Killewald L

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the stability of the tandemly repeated genes that encode the ribosomal RNA in Coprinus cinereus. These genes are contained within two linked HindIII fragments in a 3.0-Mb chromosome. We monitored the size of these fragments in both mitotic and meiotic segregants using the contour-clamped homogeneous e...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Pukkila PJ,Skrzynia C

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conspicuous differences in floral morphology are partly responsible for reproductive isolation between two sympatric species of monkeyflower because of their effect on visitation of the flowers by different pollinators. Mimulus lewisii flowers are visited primarily by bumblebees, whereas M. cardinalis flowers are visi...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Bradshaw HD Jr,Otto KG,Frewen BE,McKay JK,Schemske DW

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the results of a restriction site survey of variation at five loci in Drosophila athabasca, complimenting a previous study of the period locus. There is considerably greater differentiation between the three semispecies of D. athabasca at the period locus and two other X-linked genes (no-on-transient-A and ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Ford MJ,Aquadro CF

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinal variation is common for enzymes in the glycolytic pathway for Drosophila melanogaster and is generally accepted as an adaptive response to different climates. Although the enzyme phosphoglucomutase (PGM) possesses several allozyme polymorphisms, it is unique in that it had been reported to show no clinal variat...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Verrelli BC,Eanes WF

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Frequent nonhomologous recombination has been previously postulated to explain the 1045-bp insertion in one mitochondrial sperm-transmitted haplotype of Mytilus galloprovincialis. Such recombination would lead to the disruption of gene order and so the existence of a specific mechanism for maintaining the same gene or...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Burzyński A

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The three mammalian D-type cyclins are thought to promote progression through the G1 phase of the cell cycle as regulatory subunits of cyclin-dependent kinase 4 and 6. In addition, they have been proposed to control the activity of various transcription factors without a partner kinase. Here we describe phenotypic con...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Emmerich J,Meyer CA,de la Cruz AF,Edgar BA,Lehner CF

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a screening approach that utilizes an inverse polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to detect P element insertions in or near previously cloned genes in Drosophila melanogaster. We used this approach in a large scale genetic screen in which P elements were mobilized from sites on the X chromosome to new autosom...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Dalby B,Pereira AJ,Goldstein LS

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adaptation from de novo mutation can produce so-called soft selective sweeps, where adaptive alleles of independent mutational origin sweep through the population at the same time. Population genetic theory predicts that such soft sweeps should be likely if the product of the population size and the mutation rate towa...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Wilson BA,Petrov DA,Messer PW

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolutionary process leading to the fixation of newly duplicated genes is not well understood. It was recently proposed that the fixation of duplicate genes is frequently driven by positive selection for increased gene dosage (i.e., the gene dosage hypothesis), because haploinsufficient genes were reported to have...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Qian W,Zhang J

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The availability of the complete DNA sequence of the Chlamydomonas reinhardtii genome and advanced computational biology tools has allowed elucidation and study of the small ubiquitin-like modifier (SUMO) system in this unicellular photosynthetic alga and model eukaryotic cell system. SUMO is a member of a ubiquitin-l...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Wang Y,Ladunga I,Miller AR,Horken KM,Plucinak T,Weeks DP,Bailey CP

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations that confer the loss of a single biochemical property (separation-of-function mutations) can often uncover a previously unknown role for a protein in a particular biological process. However, most mutations are identified based on loss-of-function phenotypes, which cannot differentiate between separation-of-...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Lubin JW,Rao T,Mandell EK,Wuttke DS,Lundblad V

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dna2 is a nuclease and helicase that functions redundantly with other proteins in Okazaki fragment processing, double-strand break resection, and checkpoint kinase activation. Dna2 is an essential enzyme, required for yeast and mammalian cell viability. Here, we report that numerous mutations affecting the DNA damage ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Markiewicz-Potoczny M,Lisby M,Lydall D

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated a new class of deletion mutants of phage lambda that extend from the prophage attachment site, att, into the gam and cIII genes. In this respect they are similar to certain of the lambda pbio transducing phage, but they differ in having a low burst size and in forming minute plaques. Lytically grown s...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Henderson D,Weil J

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An extending axon growth cone is subjected to attractant and repellent cues. It is not clear how these growth cones discriminate the two opposing forces and select their projection paths. Here, we report that in the Drosophila nerve cord the growth cones of longitudinal tracts are subjected to attraction by the Netrin...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Bhat KM

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The availability of genomewide dense markers brings opportunities and challenges to breeding programs. An important question concerns the ways in which dense markers and pedigrees, together with phenotypic records, should be used to arrive at predictions of genetic values for complex traits. If a large number of marke...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： de los Campos G,Naya H,Gianola D,Crossa J,Legarra A,Manfredi E,Weigel K,Cotes JM

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Dissociation (Ds) mutant, Bz-wm, of the maize bronze-1 (bz) locus conditions a leaky phenotype. Plants carrying this mutant allele synthesize a low amount of an altered Bz gene product, which leads to reduced anthocyanin pigmentation in the seed. The molecular analysis reported here shows that the Bz-wm mutant has...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Schiefelbein JW,Furtek DB,Dooner HK,Nelson OE Jr

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have shown that the phenotypes resulting from hypomorphic mutations (causing reduction but not complete loss of function) in two X-linked genes can be used as a genetic assay for X-chromosome dosage compensation in Caenorhabditis elegans between males (XO) and hermaphrodites (XX). In addition we show that recessive...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Meneely PM,Wood WB

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of haplotype blocks has been shown to be useful in genetics. Fields of application range from the detection of regions under positive selection to statistical methods that make use of dimension reduction. We propose a novel approach ("HaploBlocker") for defining and inferring haplotype blocks that focuses ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Pook T,Schlather M,de Los Campos G,Mayer M,Schoen CC,Simianer H

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Use of the CRISPR/Cas9 RNA-guided endonuclease complex has recently enabled the generation of double-strand breaks virtually anywhere in the C. elegans genome. Here, we present an improved strategy that makes all steps in the genome editing process more efficient. We have created a toolkit of template-mediated repair ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Norris AD,Kim HM,Colaiácovo MP,Calarco JA

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a positive association between marital radius (distance between mates' birthplaces) and fertility detected in a large population. Spurious association due to socioeconomic factors is discarded by a conditional analysis involving income, education, and urbanicity. Strong evidence of consanguinity's deleteriou...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Labouriau R,Amorim A

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Demonstrating that naturally occurring enzyme polymorphisms significantly impact metabolic pathway flux is a fundamental step in examining the possible adaptive significance of such polymorphisms. In earlier studies of the glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) polymorphism in Drosophila melanogaster, we used two di...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Labate J,Eanes WF

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have tested the hypothesis that genetic differences among conspecific populations may result in diverse responses to selection, using natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster. Selection for ethanol tolerance in a tube measuring knockdown resistance was imposed on five West Coast populations. In 24 generations...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Cohan FM,Hoffmann AA

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The meiotic properties of paracentric inversion heterozygotes have been well studied in insects and plants, but not in mammalian species. In essence, a single meiotic recombination event within the inverted region results in the formation of a dicentric chromatid, which usually breaks or is stretched between the two d...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Koehler KE,Millie EA,Cherry JP,Burgoyne PS,Evans EP,Hunt PA,Hassold TJ

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The characterization of the distribution of mutational effects is a key goal in evolutionary biology. Recently developed deep-sequencing approaches allow for accurate and simultaneous estimation of the fitness effects of hundreds of engineered mutations by monitoring their relative abundance across time points in a si...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Matuszewski S,Hildebrandt ME,Ghenu AH,Jensen JD,Bank C

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A leucine, leucyl-tRNA synthetase-dependent pathway activates TorC1 kinase and its downstream stimulation of protein synthesis, a major nitrogen consumer. We previously demonstrated, however, that control of Gln3, a transcription activator of catabolic genes whose products generate the nitrogenous precursors for prote...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Tate JJ,Rai R,Cooper TG

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate the involvement of suppressor of meiotic silencing-2 (sms-2(+)), a Neurospora gene coding for an Argonaute-like protein, in meiotic silencing and normal sexual development. ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Lee DW,Pratt RJ,McLaughlin M,Aramayo R

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A lethal locus (l(2)br7;35B6-10), near Adh on chromosome arm 2L of D. melanogaster, is identified with Plunkett's dominant suppressor of Hairless (H). Of eight new alleles, seven act as dominant suppressors of H, the eighth is a dominant enhancer of H. One of the suppressor alleles is both a leaky lethal and a weak s...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Ashburner M

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A model emphasizing the possible genetic role of tandem duplications of reverse repeats has been developed as an extension of Crick's (1971) general model for the chromosomes of higher organisms. Although developed initially (1) to explain why random differences in the control regions of individual gene loci might con...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Wallace B,Kass TL

更新日期：1974-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the SPT10 and SPT21 genes were originally isolated as suppressors of Ty and LTR (delta) insertion mutations in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and the genes were shown to be required for normal transcription at a number of loci in yeast. Now we have cloned, sequenced, mapped and mutagenized SPT10 and SPT21. Sin...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Natsoulis G,Winston F,Boeke JD

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00