Testing the unique amplification event and the worldwide migration hypothesis of insecticide resistance genes with sequence data.

abstract：:Invasive species are believed to spread through a process of stratified dispersal consisting of short-distance diffusive spread around established foci and human mediated long-distance jumps. Brazilian peppertree (Schinus terebinthifolius), native to South America, was introduced twice as an ornamental plant into Flor...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Williams DA,Muchugu E,Overholt WA,Cuda JP

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

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：: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：:Investigations into the genetic basis of reproductive barriers among recognized and putative varieties in Phacelia dubia have provided evidence that even among closely related taxa, multiple pathways can lead to reproductive isolation. A nuclear-based reproductive barrier, expressed as partial hybrid sterility of both...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Levy F

更新日期：1991-12-01 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：: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：:Pigmentation is one of the most variable traits within and between Drosophila species. Much of this diversity appears to be adaptive, with environmental factors often invoked as selective forces. Here, we describe the geographic structure of pigmentation in Drosophila americana and evaluate the hypothesis that it is a...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Wittkopp PJ,Smith-Winberry G,Arnold LL,Thompson EM,Cooley AM,Yuan DC,Song Q,McAllister BF

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypothesis that traits closely associated with fitness will generally possess lower heritabilities than traits more loosely connected with fitness is tested using 1120 narrow sense heritability estimates for wild, outbred animal populations, collected from the published record. Our results indicate that life histo...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Mousseau TA,Roff DA

更新日期：1987-10-01 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：:Patterns of pollen dispersal are central to both the ecology and evolution of plant populations. However, the mechanisms controlling either the dispersal process itself or our estimation of that process may be influenced by site-specific factors such as local forest structure and nonuniform adult genetic structure. He...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Dyer RJ,Westfall RD,Sork VL,Smouse PE

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The theory, construction and optimization of a model of chromosome pairing in triploid hybrids are re-examined and the model reconstructed. A new approach to optimization is described that removes a bias in the estimation of x, the measure of relative affinity, by weighting the observed and calculated meiotic figure f...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Chapman CGD,Kimber G

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is great uncertainty about how Ireland attained its current fauna and flora. Long-distance human-mediated colonization from southwestern Europe has been seen as a possible way that Ireland obtained many of its species; however, Britain has (surprisingly) been neglected as a source area for Ireland. The pygmy shr...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： McDevitt AD,Vega R,Rambau RV,Yannic G,Herman JS,Hayden TJ,Searle JB

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seed dormancy is a key adaptive trait under polygenic control in many plants. We introduced the chromosomal regions containing the dormancy QTLs qSD1, qSD7-1, and qSD12 from an accession of weedy rice into a nondormant genetic background to examine component genetic effects and their interactions with time of afterrip...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Gu XY,Kianian SF,Foley ME

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent genetic studies have shown that introgression rates among loci may greatly vary according to their location in the genome. In particular, several cases of mito-nuclear discordances have been reported for a wide range of organisms. In the present study, we examine the causes of discordance between mitochondrial ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Pons JM,Sonsthagen S,Dove C,Crochet PA

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleotide diversity was assessed within nine candidate genes (CGs) (in total 4.6 kb) for the time of bud burst in nine sessile oak (Quercus petraea) populations distributed in central and northern Europe. The sampled populations were selected on the basis of their contrasting times of bud burst observed in common gar...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Derory J,Scotti-Saintagne C,Bertocchi E,Le Dantec L,Graignic N,Jauffres A,Casasoli M,Chancerel E,Bodénès C,Alberto F,Kremer A

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Segregation distorters are alleles that distort normal segregation in their own favour. Sex chromosomal distorters lead to biased sex ratios, and the presence of such distorters, therefore, may induce selection for a change in the mechanism of sex determination. The evolutionary dynamics of distorter-induced changes i...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Kozielska M,Weissing FJ,Beukeboom LW,Pen I

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：:Empirical evidence is mounting to suggesting that genetic correlations between life-history traits are environment specific. However, detailed knowledge about the loci underlying genetic correlations in different environments is scant. Here, we studied the influence of temperature (12 degrees C and 24 degrees C) on th...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Gutteling EW,Doroszuk A,Riksen JA,Prokop Z,Reszka J,Kammenga JE

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spatial patterns of genetic variation can reveal otherwise cryptic evolutionary and landscape processes. In northwestern Costa Rica, an approximately concordant genetic discontinuity occurs among populations of several plant species. We conducted phylogeographic analyses of an epiphytic orchid, Brassavola nodosa, to t...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Trapnell DW,Hamrick JL,Smallwood PA,Kartzinel TR,Ishibashi CD,Quigley CTC

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic rearrangements can result in losses, amplifications, translocations and inversions of DNA fragments thereby modifying genome architecture, and potentially having clinical consequences. Many genomic disorders caused by structural variation have initially been uncovered by early cytogenetic methods. The last dec...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Le Scouarnec S,Gribble SM

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in both men and women in the US. While most sporadic lung cancer cases are related to environmental factors such as smoking, genetic susceptibility may also play an important role and a number of lung cancer associated single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) have been i...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Lei X,Yuan D,Zhu Z,Huang S

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This corrects the article DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2015.89. ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Kenny NJ,Chan KW,Nong W,Qu Z,Maeso I,Yip HY,Chan TF,Kwan HS,Holland PWH,Chu KH,Hui JHL

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic genomes frequently acquire new protein-coding genes which may significantly impact an organism's fitness. Novel genes can be created, for example, by duplication of large genomic regions or de novo, from previously non-coding DNA. Either way, creation of a novel transcript is an essential early step during ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Schmitz JF,Chain FJJ,Bornberg-Bauer E

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigate the effects of consanguinity and population substructure on genetic health using the UK Asian population as an example. We review and expand upon previous treatments dealing with the deleterious effects of consanguinity on recessive disorders and consider how other factors, such as population substructu...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Overall AD,Ahmad M,Nichols RA

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowing the variances and heritabilities (h(2)) of life history traits in populations living under natural conditions is necessary for a mechanistic understanding of respective evolutionary processes. I estimated heritabilities of several life history traits, including dispersal rate, body mass, age at first reproduct...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Saastamoinen M

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic control of self-incompatibility (SI) was studied in the Mediterranean short-lived perennial species Anagallis monelli (Primulaceae: Myrsinaceae). Arrays of siblings, including families derived from reciprocal crosses, were cross-pollinated in full diallels, and compatibility groups were assesssed from a ce...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Talavera S,Gibbs PE,Fernández-Piedra MP,Ortiz-Herrera MA

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Competition experiments between several Drosophila pseudoobscura strains that were previously subjected to periodic bottlenecks of different sizes and D. willistoni have been carried out. Contrary to previous results with these two species, where stable coexistence was detected, populations of D. pseudoobscura displac...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： López Bueno JA,Moya A,González-Candelas F

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

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：:Genetic variation that is expressed only under specific environmental conditions can contribute to additional adverse effects of inbreeding if environmental conditions change. We present a proteomic characterization of a conditional lethal found in an inbred line of Drosophila melanogaster. The lethal effect is appare...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Pedersen KS,Codrea MC,Vermeulen CJ,Loeschcke V,Bendixen E

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of phenotypic plasticity may differ among life stages of the same organism. Age-dependent plasticity can be important for adaptation to heterogeneous environments, but this has only recently been recognized. Whether age-dependent plasticity is a common outcome of local adaptation and whether populations...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Nilsson-Örtman V,Rogell B,Stoks R,Johansson F

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00