Inter and intraspecific variation in nuclear DNA content in Aedes mosquitoes.

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：:As important as the events that influence selection for specific chromosome types in the derivation of novel karyotypes, are the events that initiate the changes in chromosome number and structure between species, and likewise polymorphisms, variants and disease states within species. Although once thought of as trans...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Brown JD,Mitchell SE,O'Neill RJ

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many Odonata species exhibit female-limited polymorphisms, where one morph is similar to the conspecific male in body color and other traits (andromorph), whereas one or more other morphs differ from the male (gynomorphs). Here we investigated the differentially expressed transcripts (DETs) among males and two female ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Takahashi M,Takahashi Y,Kawata M

更新日期：2019-01-01 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：:The importance of sexual selection in population divergence is of much interest, mainly because it is thought to cause reproductive isolation and hence could lead to speciation. Sexually selected traits have been hypothesized to diverge faster between populations than other traits, presumably because of differences in...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Svensson EI,Kristoffersen L,Oskarsson K,Bensch S

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the semienclosed Adriatic Sea, the shared stocks of the cephalopods Loligo vulgaris and Sepia officinalis represent important marine fisheries resources exploited by all coastal countries. The improving of knowledge on the demographic features of these shared stocks is internationally relevant for adopting responsi...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Garoia F,Guarniero I,Ramsak A,Ungaro N,Landi M,Piccinetti C,Mannini P,Tinti F

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deleterious mutations accumulating on non-recombining Y chromosomes can drive XY to XY turnovers, as they allow to replace the old mutation-loaded Y by a new mutation-free one. The same process is thought to prevent XY to ZW turnovers, because the latter requires fixation of the ancestral Y, assuming dominance of the ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Saunders PA,Neuenschwander S,Perrin N

更新日期：2019-09-01 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：:To confirm whether sex-linked genes of the silkworm are dosage compensated or not, we investigated three RAPDs and one RFLP marker which have been mapped to the Z chromosome as candidate genes to test for dosage compensation. Northern blot analysis demonstrated that one of the RAPDs, T15.180a, is transcribed into seve...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Suzuki MG,Shimada T,Kobayashi M

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Southern Italy has a long history of human occupation and passage of different cultures since the Early Holocene. Repeated, ancient introductions of pigs in several geographic areas in Europe make it difficult to understand pig translocation and domestication in Italy. The archeozoological record may provide fundament...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Lega C,Fulgione D,Genovese A,Rook L,Masseti M,Meiri M,Cinzia Marra A,Carotenuto F,Raia P

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent molecular evidence has shown that many MHC polymorphisms are not only shared between species but are in fact identical at the molecular level. Species that share these polymorphisms may be very distantly related and often diverged millions of generations ago. It is now known that this phenomenon is very unlikel...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Golding B

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of nuclear genealogies in natural populations of nonmodel organisms is expected to provide novel insights into the evolutionary history of populations, especially when developed in the framework of well-established mtDNA phylogeographical scenarios. In the Iberian Peninsula, the endemic Schreiber's green liz...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Godinho R,Mendonça B,Crespo EG,Ferrand N

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of local adaptation is rendered difficult by many evolutionary confounding phenomena (for example, genetic drift and demographic history). When complex traits are involved in local adaptation, phenomena such as phenotypic plasticity further hamper evolutionary biologists to study the complex relationships be...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： de Villemereuil P,Gaggiotti OE,Mouterde M,Till-Bottraud I

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atlantic Coast striped bass exhibit exceptionally low levels of genetic variation. The ability of the randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) method to uncover genetic variation in this highly conserved species was investigated. Sufficient levels of variation were detected to allow a population genetic analysis of t...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Bielawski JP,Pumo DE

更新日期：1997-01-01 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：: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：:Cuticular colour in the mealworm beetle (Tenebrio molitor) is a quantitative trait, varying from tan to black. Population level variation in cuticular colour has been linked to pathogen resistance in this species and in several other insects: darker individuals are more resistant to pathogens. Given that cuticular col...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Armitage SA,Siva-Jothy MT

更新日期：2005-06-01 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：:Pedunculate oak and sessile oak are two sympatric interfertile species that exhibit leaf morphological differences. We aimed to detect quantitative trait loci (QTLs) of these traits in order to locate genomic regions involved in species differentiation. A total of 15 leaf morphological traits were assessed in a mixed ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Saintagne C,Bodénès C,Barreneche T,Pot D,Plomion C,Kremer A

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge of the degree of temporal stability of population genetic structure and composition is important for understanding microevolutionary processes and addressing issues of human impact of natural populations. We know little about how representative single samples in time are to reflect population genetic constit...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Charlier J,Laikre L,Ryman N

更新日期：2012-10-01 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：:The theoretical impacts of anthropogenic habitat degradation on genetic resources have been well articulated. Here we use a simulation approach to assess the magnitude of expected genetic change, and review 31 studies of 23 neotropical tree species to assess whether empirical case studies conform to theory. Major diff...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Lowe AJ,Boshier D,Ward M,Bacles CF,Navarro C

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hybridization between crops and their weedy or wild relatives is an area of concern because the widespread use of genetically engineered crops may allow novel, beneficial transgenes to enter nearby populations. We compared fitness components of wild Cucurbita pepo from Arkansas, USA, with wild-crop hybrids derived fro...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Spencer LJ,Snow AA

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In prediction of genomic values, the single-step method has been demonstrated to outperform multi-step methods. In statistical analyses of longitudinal traits, the random regression test-day model (RR-TDM) has clear advantages over other models. Our goal in this study was to evaluate the performance of a model that in...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Kang H,Zhou L,Mrode R,Zhang Q,Liu JF

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our understanding of the distribution of worldwide human genomic diversity has greatly increased over recent years thanks to the availability of large data sets derived from short tandem repeats (STRs), insertion deletion polymorphisms (indels) and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). A concern, however, is that th...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Romero IG,Manica A,Goudet J,Handley LL,Balloux F

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The parasitoid Cotesia glomerata usually produces female-biased sex ratios in the field, which are presumably caused by inbreeding and local mate competition (LMC); yet, sibling mating increases the production of males, leading to the male-biased sex ratio of broods in the laboratory. Previous studies have suggested t...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Zhou Y,Gu H,Dorn S

更新日期：2006-06-01 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：:The coefficient of variation of estimates of three genetic distances (standard genetic distance of Nei, chord distance, FST) was examined with computer simulation to determine if large samples (per population) are necessary to precisely estimate genetic distances at loci with high levels of polymorphism. These simulat...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Kalinowski ST

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multicellular organisms probably originated as groups of cells formed in several ways, including cell proliferation from a group of founder cells and aggregation. Cooperation among cells benefits the group, but may be costly (altruistic) or beneficial (synergistic) to individual cooperating cells. In this paper, we st...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Michod RE,Roze D

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Population genetics theory predicts loss in genetic variability because of drift and inbreeding in isolated plant populations; however, it has been argued that long-distance pollination and seed dispersal may be able to maintain gene flow, even in highly fragmented landscapes. We tested how historical effective popula...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： da Silva Carvalho C,Ribeiro MC,Côrtes MC,Galetti M,Collevatti RG

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00