Beaded of Goldschmidt, an antimorphic allele of Serrate, encodes a protein lacking transmembrane and intracellular domains.

abstract：:Previous mathematical analyses of mutation-selection balance for metric traits assume that selection acts on the relevant loci only through the character(s) under study. Thus, they implicitly assume that all of the relevant mutation and selection parameters are estimable. A more realistic analysis must recognize that ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Turelli M

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Meiosis was analyzed cytogenetically in autotetraploids of Arabidopsis, including both established lines and newly generated autotetraploid plants. Fluorescent in situ hybridization with 5S and 45S rDNA probes was used to identify the different chromosomes at metaphase I of meiosis. Multivalents were observed frequent...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Santos JL,Alfaro D,Sanchez-Moran E,Armstrong SJ,Franklin FC,Jones GH

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have precisely mapped and sequenced the three 5' exons of the Drosophila melanogaster Gld gene and have identified the start sites for transcription and translation. The first exon is composed of 335 nucleotides and does not contain any putative translation start codons. The second exon is separated from the first ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Whetten R,Organ E,Krasney P,Cox-Foster D,Cavener D

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptional silencing in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae may be linked to DNA replication and cell cycle progression. In this study, we have surveyed the effect of 41 mutations in genes with a role in replication, the cell cycle, and DNA repair on silencing at HMR. Mutations in PCNA (POL30), RF-C (CDC44...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Ehrenhofer-Murray AE,Kamakaka RT,Rine J

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resolving the mechanistic and genetic bases of reproductive barriers between species is essential to understanding the evolutionary forces that shape speciation. Intrinsic hybrid incompatibilities are often treated as fixed between species, yet there can be considerable variation in the strength of reproductive isolat...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Larson EL,Vanderpool D,Sarver BAJ,Callahan C,Keeble S,Provencio LL,Kessler MD,Stewart V,Nordquist E,Dean MD,Good JM

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High baselines of transcription factor activities represent fundamental obstacles to regulated signaling. Here we show that in Drosophila, quenching of basal activator protein 1 (AP-1) transcription factor activity serves as a prerequisite to its tight spatial and temporal control by the JNK (Jun N-terminal kinase) si...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Bates KL,Higley M,Letsou A

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein aggregates are a common pathological feature of most neurodegenerative diseases (NDs). Understanding their formation and regulation will help clarify their controversial roles in disease pathogenesis. To date, there have been few systematic studies of aggregates formation in Drosophila, a model organism that h...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Zhang S,Binari R,Zhou R,Perrimon N

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early embryogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster is controlled by maternal gene products, which are deposited in the egg during oogenesis. It is not well understood how maternal gene expression is controlled during germline development. pipsqueak (psq) is a complex locus that encodes several nuclear protein variants con...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Grillo M,Furriols M,Casanova J,Luschnig S

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rate of decline in reproductive fitness in populations of Drosophila melanogaster inbred at an initial rate of approximately 1% per generation has been investigated under both competitive and noncompetitive conditions. Breeding population size was variable in the inbred lines with an estimated harmonic mean of 66....

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Latter BD,Mulley JC,Reid D,Pascoe L

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nuclear aod-1 gene of Neurospora crassa encodes the alternative oxidase and is induced when the standard cytochrome-mediated respiratory chain of mitochondria is inhibited. To study elements of the pathway responsible for alternative oxidase induction, we generated a series of mutations in the region upstream from...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Chae MS,Lin CC,Kessler KE,Nargang CE,Tanton LL,Hahn LB,Nargang FE

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We consider a population that adapts to a gradually changing environment. Our aim is to describe how ecological and genetic factors combine to determine the genetic basis of adaptation. Specifically, we consider the evolution of a polygenic trait that is under stabilizing selection with a moving optimum. The ecologica...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Kopp M,Hermisson J

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In female mammalian cells, the inactive X chromosome is replicated late in S phase while the active X chromosome is replicated earlier. The replication times of the X chromosomes reflect a general trend in which late replication is associated with gene repression and earlier replication with transcriptional competence...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Diaz-Perez S,Ouyang Y,Perez V,Cisneros R,Regelson M,Marahrens Y

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Population structure parameters commonly used for diploid species are reexamined for the particular case of tetrasomic inheritance (autotetraploid species). Recurrence equations that describe the evolution of identity probabilities for neutral genes in an "island model" of population structure are derived assuming tet...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Ronfort J,Jenczewski E,Bataillon T,Rousset F

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In both pedigree linkage studies and in population-based association studies there has been much interest in the use of modern dense genetic marker data to infer segments of gene identity by descent (ibd) among individuals not known to be related, to increase power and resolution in localizing genes affecting complex ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Brown MD,Glazner CG,Zheng C,Thompson EA

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces regression procedures for prediction of total genetic value for quantitative traits, which make use of phenotypic and genomic data simultaneously, are discussed from a theoretical perspective. It is argued that a nonparametric treatment may be needed for capturing the multiple and com...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Gianola D,van Kaam JB

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We consider some practical statistical issues in QTL analysis where several crosses originate in multiple inbred parents. Our results show that ignoring background polygenic variation in different crosses may lead to biased interval mapping estimates of QTL effects or loss of efficiency. Threshold and power approximat...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Zou F,Yandell BS,Fine JP

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Notch is a receptor that mediates cell-cell interactions in animal development, and aberrations in Notch signal transduction can cause cancer and other human diseases. Here, I describe the major advances in the Notch field from the identification of the first mutant in Drosophila almost a century ago through the eluci...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Greenwald I

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Drosophila gene exuperantia (exu) is a maternal effect gene which is needed for proper localization of the bcd RNA during the formation of oocytes. We have extended the characterization of the exu phenotype and find that the gene functions in the male as well as the female germline. Six of seven exu alleles are ma...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Hazelrigg T,Watkins WS,Marcey D,Tu C,Karow M,Lin XR

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of genetic polymorphisms in a population contains information about evolutionary processes. The Poisson random field (PRF) model uses the polymorphism frequency spectrum to infer the mutation rate and the strength of directional selection. The PRF model relies on an infinite-sites approximation that i...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Desai MM,Plotkin JB

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inbreeding depression, which refers to reduced fitness among offspring of related parents, has traditionally been studied using pedigrees. In practice, pedigree information is difficult to obtain, potentially unreliable, and rarely assessed for inbreeding arising from common ancestors who lived more than a few generat...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Keller MC,Visscher PM,Goddard ME

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reciprocal recurrent selection (RRS), which assumes overdominant loci to be important, alters two genetically different populations to improve their crossbred mean. Individual plants from two populations (A and B) are selfed and also crossed with plants from the reciprocal female tester population (B and A, respective...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Moreno-Gonzalez J,Grossman M

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A spontaneous lethal mutation rate approximately twenty to thirty times greater than normal has been discovered in second and third chromosomes derived from an irradiated isogenic line and paired with marked inversion chromosomes. Mutations resulting in reductions of viability of varying magnitude short of complete le...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Kidwell MG,Kidwell JF,Nei M

更新日期：1973-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the genealogy of the sequences in a random sample from a population can be classified as external and internal. External mutations are mutations that occurred in the external branches and internal mutations are mutations that occurred in the internal branches of the genealogy. Under the assumption of sele...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Fu YX,Li WH

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in maternally transmitted symbionts can affect host fitness. In this study we investigate a mutation in an obligate bacterial symbiont (Buchnera), which has dramatic effects on the heat tolerance of pea aphid hosts (Acyrthosiphon pisum). The heat-sensitive allele arises through a single base deletion in a ho...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Burke GR,McLaughlin HJ,Simon JC,Moran NA

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-five nucleotide polymorphisms were found in a 21.5-kbp region including the Est6 locus among 42 isoallelic lines extracted from a single natural population of Drosophila melanogaster. The heterozygosity per nucleotide pair was estimated to be 0.010 overall, but was lower in sequences hybridizing to transcripts ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Game AY,Oakeshott JG

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A causal link between deficiency of the cytochrome respiratory pathway and life span was previously shown in the filamentous fungus Podospora anserina. To gain more insight into the relationship between mitochondrial function and life span, we have constructed a strain carrying a thermosensitive mutation of the gene o...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Sellem CH,Lemaire C,Lorin S,Dujardin G,Sainsard-Chanet A

更新日期：2005-03-01 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：:Interactions between Drosophila C virus (DCV) and its natural host, Drosophila melanogaster, were investigated using 15 geographical population samples infected by intraabdominal inoculation. These strains derived from natural populations of D. melanogaster differed in susceptibility to the DCVc. One strain was "parti...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Thomas-Orillard M,Jeune B,Cusset G

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identifying loci under natural selection from genomic surveys is of great interest in different research areas. Commonly used methods to separate neutral effects from adaptive effects are based on locus-specific population differentiation coefficients to identify outliers. Here we extend such an approach to estimate d...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Foll M,Gaggiotti O

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immature spermatids from Caenorhabditis elegans are stimulated by an external activation signal to reorganize their membranes and cytoskeleton to form crawling spermatozoa. This rapid maturation, termed spermiogenesis, occurs without any new gene expression. To better understand this signal transduction pathway, we is...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Muhlrad PJ,Ward S

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00