Computerized meiotic mapping in Aspergillus nidulans.

abstract：:In order to examine the mechanisms of mutagenesis by a bulky DNA lesion at the guanine N7 position, the replicative form DNA of phage M13AB28 (mp8 without the amber codons in phage genes) was modified in vitro with aflatoxin B1-2,3-dichloride and transfected into appropriate Escherichia coli cells. Forward mutations i...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Sambamurti K,Callahan J,Luo X,Perkins CP,Jacobsen JS,Humayun MZ

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular heterogeneity in human breast cancer has challenged diagnosis, prognosis, and clinical treatment. It is well known that molecular subtypes of breast tumors are associated with significant differences in prognosis and survival. Assuming that the differences are attributed to subtype-specific pathways, we then...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Li R,Campos J,Iida J

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleostemin 3 (NS3) is an evolutionarily conserved protein with profound roles in cell growth and viability. Here we analyze cell-autonomous and non-cell-autonomous growth control roles of NS3 in Drosophila and demonstrate its GTPase activity using genetic and biochemical assays. Two null alleles of ns3, and RNAi, de...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Hartl TA,Ni J,Cao J,Suyama KL,Patchett S,Bussiere C,Gui DY,Tang S,Kaplan DD,Fish M,Johnson AW,Scott MP

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the genetic basis of maize adaptation to temperate climate, collections of 375 inbred lines and 275 landraces, representative of American and European diversity, were evaluated for flowering time under short- and long-day conditions. The inbred line collection was genotyped for 55 genomewide simple sequ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Camus-Kulandaivelu L,Veyrieras JB,Madur D,Combes V,Fourmann M,Barraud S,Dubreuil P,Gouesnard B,Manicacci D,Charcosset A

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A flight test box was developed and used in the isolation and initial characterization of Drosophila melanogaster mutants defective in flight behavior. Forty-eight mutants were isolated from F(1) progeny of ethyl methanesulfonate-treated males. Genetic mapping and complementation tests show that the mutations reside a...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Homyk T,Sheppard DE

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An association was found earlier between the Ep(1) gene locus coding for an endopeptidase and the endosperm color gene Y(1) on chromosome 6 of Zea mays. By employing primary trisomics we have unequivocally placed the Ep(1) gene on chromosome 6, closely linked to the Y(1) locus. Additionally we describe new alleles at ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Nielsen G,Scandalios JG

更新日期：1974-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Considering a random mating population of finite size, the variance of the number of loci having a given gene frequency was derived under the assumption of a steady flux of mutations. The variance of average heterozygosity among populations was also derived under the same assumption. It was shown that these variances ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Maruyama T

更新日期：1973-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two parental strains of laboratory mice, NZB and CBA/H, were chosen for their differences in attack behavior. NZB have higher scores than CBA/H. An effect of the Y chromosome on attack behavior was determined for two maternal environments. Each male was tested once in a dyadic encounter with an A/J male as a standard ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Carlier M,Roubertoux PL,Pastoret C

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two large, stable populations (Texas and Japan) of Drosophila melanogaster were surveyed at 21 allozyme loci on the second and third chromosomes and for chromosomal gene arrangements on those two chromosomes. Over 220 independent gametes were sampled from each population. The types and frequencies of the surveyed gene...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Langley CH,Tobari YN,Kojima KI

更新日期：1974-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using the biological species definition, yeasts of the genus Saccharomyces sensu stricto comprise six species and one natural hybrid. Previous work has shown that reproductive isolation between the species is due primarily to sequence divergence acted upon by the mismatch repair system and not due to major gene differ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Liti G,Barton DB,Louis EJ

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In yeast meiotic recombination, alleles used as genetic markers fall into two classes as regards their fate when incorporated into heteroduplex DNA. Normal alleles are those that form heteroduplexes that are nearly always recognized and corrected by the mismatch repair system operating in meiosis. High PMS (postmeioti...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Manivasakam P,Rosenberg SM,Hastings PJ

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations affecting the self-incompatibility response of Nicotiana alata were generated by irradiation. Mutants in the M1 generation were selected on the basis of pollen tube growth through an otherwise incompatible pistil. Twelve of the 18 M1 plants obtained from the mutagenesis screen were self-compatible. Eleven se...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Golz JF,Su V,Clarke AE,Newbigin E

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Position-effect control at the silent mat2-mat3 interval and at centromeres and telomeres in fission yeast is suggested to be mediated through the assembly of heterochromatin-like structures. Therefore, trans-acting genes that affect silencing may encode either chromatin proteins, factors that modify them, or factors ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Grewal SI,Bonaduce MJ,Klar AJ

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used the results of an experiment mapping quantitative trait loci (QTL) affecting milk yield and composition to estimate the total number of QTL affecting these traits. We did this by estimating the number of segregating QTL within a half-sib daughter design using logic similar to that used to estimate the "fa...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Chamberlain AJ,McPartlan HC,Goddard ME

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We explicitly solve and analyze a series of deterministic continent-island models to delimit the effects of pollen and seed migration on cytonuclear frequencies and disequilibria in random-mating, mixed-mating and self-fertilized populations. Given the critical assumption of maternal cytoplasmic inheritance, five majo...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Asmussen MA,Schnabel A

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple method of replica plating has been used to isolate mutants of Neurospora crassa that have increased sensitivity to methyl methanesulfonate (MMS) and/or to histidine. Twelve mutants with increased sensitivity to MMS and one mutant with increased sensitivity to histidine showed Mendelian segregation of the muta...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Delange AM,Mishra NC

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three hundred and fifteen kilobases of DNA from the rosy-Ace region on chromosome 3R of D. melanogaster have previously been cloned and extensively characterized. We describe the isolation of nine new deficiency mutants that break within the 315-kb interval. The position of these breakpoints on the DNA map was determi...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Gausz J,Hall LM,Spierer A,Spierer P

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The contributions of direct and inverted repeats to deletion formation were studied by characterizing Ampr revertants of plasmids with a series of insertion mutations at a specific site in the pBR322 ampicillin resistance (amp) gene. The inserts at this site are palindromic, variable in length, and bracketed by 9- or ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Weston-Hafer K,Berg DE

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Saccharomyces cerevisiae mitochondrial endonuclease I-SceI creates a double-strand break as the initiating step in the gene conversional transfer of the omega+ intron to omega- DNA. We have expressed a galactose-inducible synthetic I-SceI gene in the nucleus of yeast that also carries the I-SceI recognition site o...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Plessis A,Perrin A,Haber JE,Dujon B

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the control of pharyngeal excitation in Caenorhabditis elegans. By laser ablating subsets of the pharyngeal nervous system, we found that the MC neuron type is necessary and probably sufficient for rapid pharyngeal pumping. Electropharyngeograms showed that MC transmits excitatory postsynaptic potentials, s...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Raizen DM,Lee RY,Avery L

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyploidy has occurred throughout the evolutionary history of all eukaryotes and is extremely common in plants. Reunification of the evolutionarily divergent genomes in allopolyploids creates regulatory incompatibilities that must be reconciled. Here we report genomewide gene expression analysis of Arabidopsis synthe...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Wang J,Tian L,Lee HS,Wei NE,Jiang H,Watson B,Madlung A,Osborn TC,Doerge RW,Comai L,Chen ZJ

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rate of microsatellite mutation is dependent upon both the allele length and the repeat motif, but the exact nature of this relationship is still unknown. We analyzed data on the inheritance of human Y-chromosomal microsatellites in father-son duos, taken from 24 published reports and comprising 15,285 directly ob...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Jochens A,Caliebe A,Rösler U,Krawczak M

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastrulation is fundamental to the development of multicellular animals. Along with neurulation, gastrulation is one of the major processes of morphogenesis in which cells or whole tissues move from the surface of an embryo to its interior. Cell internalization mechanisms that have been discovered to date in Caenorhab...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Goldstein B,Nance J

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic analyses of nine traits associated with stem water-soluble carbohydrate (SWSC) accumulation and remobilization at grain-filling period under drought stress (DS) and well-watered (WW) conditions were undertaken using doubled haploid lines (DHLs) derived from two Chinese common wheat cultivars. Some significantl...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Yang DL,Jing RL,Chang XP,Li W

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neurogenic loci comprise a small group of genes which are required for proper division between the neural and epidermal pathways of differentiation within the neuroectoderm. Loss of neurogenic gene function results in the misrouting of prospective epidermal cells into neuroblasts. A molecular analysis of the neuro...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Yedvobnick B,Smoller D,Young P,Mills D

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We develop a maximum penalized-likelihood (MPL) method to estimate the fitnesses of amino acids and the distribution of selection coefficients (S = 2Ns) in protein-coding genes from phylogenetic data. This improves on a previous maximum-likelihood method. Various penalty functions are used to penalize extreme estimate...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Tamuri AU,Goldman N,dos Reis M

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological robustness, the ability of an organism to maintain a steady-state output as genetic or environmental inputs change, is critical for proper development. MicroRNAs have been implicated in biological robustness mechanisms through their post-transcriptional regulation of genes and gene networks. Previous resear...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Burke SL,Hammell M,Ambros V

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adaptation in diploids is predicted to proceed via mutations that are at least partially dominant in fitness. Recently, we argued that many adaptive mutations might also be commonly overdominant in fitness. Natural (directional) selection acting on overdominant mutations should drive them into the population but then,...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Sellis D,Kvitek DJ,Dunn B,Sherlock G,Petrov DA

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution within anthers of maize plants of microsporocytes of differing crossover class was studied by application of the serial-sectioning technique to plants heterozygous for a paracentric inversion. In such material, cells with four-strand double crossovers within the inversion are distinguishable from cell...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Maguire MP

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many insects feed on only one or a few types of host. These host specialists often evolve a preference for chemical cues emanating from their host and develop mechanisms for circumventing their host's defenses. Adaptations like these are central to evolutionary biology, yet our understanding of their genetics remains ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Hungate EA,Earley EJ,Boussy IA,Turissini DA,Ting CT,Moran JR,Wu ML,Wu CI,Jones CD

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00