Absence of dosage compensation at the transcription level of a sex-linked gene in a female heterogametic insect, Bombyx mori.

abstract：:Reaction norms or tolerance curves have often been used to predict how organisms deal with fluctuating environments. A potential drawback is that reaction norms measured in different constant environments may not capture all aspects of organismal responses to fluctuating environments. We examined growth of the filamen...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Kronholm I,Ketola T

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small populations of our study species Ranunculus reptans have reduced fitness because of inbreeding, genetic load, and reduced mate availability; that is, they suffer from a three-fold genetic Allee effect. Here, we investigate how the effect of interpopulation outbreeding on offspring fitness depends on population s...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Willi Y,Fischer M

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colonizing events may expose organisms to physical and ecological environments found nowhere else in their range. Novel selection pressures can then influence subsequent rapid evolutionary changes. Here, I investigate the genetics of one such rapid change in the sexual signal of Polynesian field crickets, Teleogryllus...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Tinghitella RM

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Local patterns of genetic variation were analysed in the land snail Helix aspersa for 32 populations sampled within a patchy agricultural landscape: the polders of the Bay of Mont-Saint-Michel (France). This investigation examined the allele frequencies at four enzymatic markers and five microsatellite loci through th...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Arnaud JF,Madec L,Guiller A,Deunff J

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Co-operative behaviour may evolve by enhancing the genetic similarity of group members. Increased group similarity is thought to be the basis for the 'subsocial route' of social evolution in the spider family Eresidae. Two processes may promote the similarity of individuals within populations or breeding groups, namel...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Johannesen J,Lubin Y

更新日期：1999-06-01 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 mechanisms by which paternal inheritance of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) (paternal leakage) and, subsequently, recombination of mtDNA are prevented vary in a species-specific manner with one mechanism in common: paternally derived mtDNA is assumed to be vastly outnumbered by maternal mtDNA in the zygote. To date, thi...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Wolff JN,Gemmell NJ

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Local adaptation is a common feature of plant and animal populations. Adaptive phenotypic traits are genetically differentiated along environmental gradients, but the genetic basis of such adaptation is still poorly known. Genetic association studies of local adaptation combine data over populations. Correcting for po...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Kujala ST,Knürr T,Kärkkäinen K,Neale DB,Sillanpää MJ,Savolainen O

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hybrids are broadly used in plant breeding and accurate estimation of variance components is crucial for optimizing genetic gain. Genome-wide information may be used to explore models designed to assess the extent of additive and non-additive variance and test their prediction accuracy for the genomic selection. Ten l...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Bouvet JM,Makouanzi G,Cros D,Vigneron P

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-eight spontaneous alterations modifying the hybridization banding pattern of six families of transposable elements (297, Foldback, copia, jockey, P and hobo) have been fixed in a set of mutation-accumulation lines of Drosophila melanogaster. Their effect on fitness has been studied by competition with the origi...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Albornoz J,Domínguez A

更新日期：1999-12-01 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：:The genome size and the base composition (GC%) of eight Hypochaeris species were determined by flow cytometry in order to establish the pattern of nuclear DNA variation within the genus. The species analysed showed an almost fivefold range of variation from 1.68 pg in H. cretensis to 8.10 pg in H. uniflora. This varia...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Cerbah M,Coulaud J,Brown SC,Siljak-Yakovlev S

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of environmental conditions on the expression of genetic variance and on maternal effects variance remains an important question in evolutionary quantitative genetics. We investigate here the effects of early environment on variation in seven adult life history, morphological, and secondary sexual traits (i...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Vega-Trejo R,Head ML,Jennions MD,Kruuk LEB

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deciphering the colonization processes by which introduced pests invade new areas is essential to limit the risk of further expansion and/or multiple introductions. We here studied the invasion history of the maritime pine bast scale Matsucoccus feytaudi. This host-specific insect does not cause any damage in its nati...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Kerdelhué C,Boivin T,Burban C

更新日期：2014-11-01 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

abstract：:Podisma pedestris exists as both an XO and neoXY form in the Southern French Alps. These chromosome types are shown to be contiguously allopatric and hybrid populations have been located in several places. Hybridisation appears to be occurring freely, but the hybrid zones are quite narrow. In several places the two di...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Hewitt GM

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluctuating asymmetry (FA) has been proposed as a tool to measure levels of stress experienced by populations of organisms during development. To be of value as a bio-marker to highlight conditions at particular sites, it is important that variation in FA is due to environmental (eg pollution) variation and not geneti...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Mpho M,Callaghan A,Holloway GJ

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:"Parent-offspring conflict" is a theoretical concept proposing that siblings are selected to be slightly more greedy with each other than parents are selected to tolerate. This paper extends a class of previous models of parent-offspring conflict by introducing a new and more realistic dimension to the analysis: the a...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Bull JJ

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cline in the frequency of melanic morphs of the two-spot ladybird, Adalia bipunctata, was first surveyed in 1980 along a transect extending inland from the coast in the Netherlands. At that time, the frequency of melanics increased over some 40 km from 10% near the coast to nearly 60% inland. Additional surveys made...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Brakefield PM,de Jong PW

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hybrid zones provide excellent opportunities to study processes and mechanisms underlying reproductive isolation and speciation. Here we investigated sex-specific clines of molecular markers in hybrid zones of morphologically cryptic yet genetically highly-diverged evolutionary lineages of the European common vole (Mi...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Sutter A,Beysard M,Heckel G

更新日期：2013-04-01 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：:Competition among individuals is central to our understanding of ecology and population dynamics. However, it could also have major implications for the evolution of resource-dependent life history traits (for example, growth, fecundity) that are important determinants of fitness in natural populations. This is becaus...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Wilson AJ

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paternity analysis based on eight microsatellite loci was used to investigate pollen and seed dispersal patterns of the dioecious wind-pollinated tree, Araucaria angustifolia. The study sites were a 5.4 ha isolated forest fragment and a small tree group situated 1.7 km away, located in Paranalpha State, Brazil. In the...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Bittencourt JV,Sebbenn AM

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Volunteers deriving from unharvested seeds of a crop can lead to persistent feral populations and participate in genetic exchanges across the agro-ecosystem, both between crop varieties and between crops and their wild relatives. A first step to understand the importance of volunteers is to characterize their capacity...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Ostrowski MF,Rousselle Y,Tsitrone A,Santoni S,David J,Reboud X,Muller MH

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In wide-ranging taxa with historically dynamic ranges, past allopatric isolation and range expansion can both influence the current structure of genetic diversity. Considering alternate historical scenarios involving expansion from either a single refugium or from multiple refugia can be useful in differentiating the ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Reid BN,Kass JM,Wollney S,Jensen EL,Russello MA,Viola EM,Pantophlet J,Iverson JB,Peery MZ,Raxworthy CJ,Naro-Maciel E

更新日期：2019-04-01 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：:How do morphological differences between species evolve at the genetic level? This study investigates the genetic basis of recent divergence in male wing size between species of the model parasitoid wasp Nasonia. The forewings of flightless Nasonia vitripennis males are 2.3 times smaller than males of their flighted s...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Loehlin DW,Enders LS,Werren JH

更新日期：2010-03-01 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：:Patterns of pollen dispersal were investigated in a small, isolated, relict population of Pinus sylvestris L., consisting of 36 trees. A total-exclusion battery comprising four chloroplast and two nuclear microsatellites (theoretical paternity exclusion probability EP=0.996) was used to assign paternity to 813 seeds, ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Robledo-Arnuncio JJ,Gil L

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MtDNA restriction fragment polymorphisms were found between cytoplasmic male-sterility types P and R of Plantago lanceolata with the homologous probe pPl311 and maize mtDNA fragments derived from the regions of atp1, cox1 and cox2. No mtDNA differences were observed between male- sterile and restored plants with the s...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Groenendijk CF,Sandbrink JM,Brederode JV,van Damme JM

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00