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：:Several studies on 5S ribosomal DNA (5S rDNA) have been focused on a subset of the following features in mostly one organism: number of copies, pseudogenes, secondary structure, promoter and terminator characteristics, genomic arrangements, types of non-transcribed spacers and evolution. In this work, we systematicall...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Vierna J,Wehner S,Höner zu Siederdissen C,Martínez-Lage A,Marz M

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted controlled crosses in populations of the long-lived clonal shrub, Vaccinium angustifolium (lowbush blueberry) to estimate inbreeding depression and mutation parameters associated with somatic deleterious mutation. Inbreeding depression level was high, with many plants failing to set fruit after self-polli...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Bobiwash K,Schultz ST,Schoen DJ

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Connectivity is widely recognized as an important component in developing effective management and conservation strategies. Although managers are generally most interested in demographic, rather than genetic connectivity, new analytic approaches are able to provide estimates of both demographic and genetic connectivit...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Thomas L,Bell JJ

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insect cuticle melanism is linked to a number of life-history traits, and a positive relationship is hypothesized between melanism and the strength of immune defense. In this study, the phenotypic and genetic relationships between cuticular melanization, innate immune defense, individual development time and body size...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Prokkola J,Roff D,Kärkkäinen T,Krams I,Rantala MJ

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic effects of habitat fragmentation may be undetectable because they are generally a recent event in evolutionary time or because of confounding effects such as historical bottlenecks and historical changes in species' distribution. To assess the effects of demographic history on the genetic diversity and populat...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Collevatti RG,Telles MP,Nabout JC,Chaves LJ,Soares TN

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present an approach for quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping, termed as 'lineage-specific QTL mapping', for inferring allelic changes of QTL evolution along with branches in a phylogeny. We describe and analyze the simplest case: by adding a third taxon into the normal procedure of QTL mapping between pairs of ta...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Chen C,Ritland K

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Host-plant resistance is an effective method for controlling soybean aphid (Aphis glycines Matsumura), the most damaging insect pest of soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) in North America. Recently, resistant soybean lines have been discovered and at least four aphid resistance genes (Rag1, Rag2, Rag3 and rag4) have bee...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Jun TH,Rouf Mian MA,Michel AP

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prevention of malaria transmission throughout much of Africa is dependent on bednets that are impregnated with pyrethroid insecticides. Anopheles arabiensis is the major malaria vector in Chad and efforts to control this vector are threatened by the emergence of pyrethroid resistance. WHO bioassays revealed that An. a...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Witzig C,Parry M,Morgan JC,Irving H,Steven A,Cuamba N,Kerah-Hinzoumbé C,Ranson H,Wondji CS

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Assessing in wild populations how fitness is impacted by inbreeding and genetic drift is a major goal for conservation biology. An approach to measure the detrimental effects of inbreeding on fitness is to estimate correlations between molecular variation and phenotypic performances within and among populations. Our s...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Luquet E,Léna JP,David P,Prunier J,Joly P,Lengagne T,Perrin N,Plénet S

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Segregation distortion is the phenomenon whereby the observed genotypic frequencies of a locus fall outside the expected Mendelian segregation ratio, and it is increasingly recognised as a potentially powerful evolutionary force. The main reason for segregation distortion is a difference in the viability of gametes an...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Tang ZX,Wang XF,Zhang MZ,Zhang YH,Deng DX,Xu CW

更新日期：2013-04-01 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：:We have constructed a linkage map for the peppered moth (Biston betularia), the classical ecological genetics model of industrial melanism, aimed both at localizing the network of loci controlling melanism and making inferences about chromosome dynamics. The linkage map, which is based primarily on amplified fragment ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Van't Hof AE,Nguyen P,Dalíková M,Edmonds N,Marec F,Saccheri IJ

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I made use of the known dates of reclamation (and of afforestations) in the IJsselmeerpolders in The Netherlands to assess evolutionary adaptation in Cepaea nemoralis. At 12 localities (three in each polder), I sampled a total of 4390 adult individuals in paired open and shaded habitats, on average 233 m apart, and sc...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Schilthuizen M

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many herbicide-resistant weed species are polyploids, but far too little about the evolution of resistance mutations in polyploids is understood. Hexaploid wild oat (Avena fatua) is a global crop weed and many populations have evolved herbicide resistance. We studied plastidic acetyl-coenzyme A carboxylase (ACCase)-in...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Yu Q,Ahmad-Hamdani MS,Han H,Christoffers MJ,Powles SB

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding how geographical and environmental features affect genetic variation at both the population and individual levels is crucial in biology, especially in the case of pathogens. However, distinguishing between these factors and the effects of historical range expansion on spatial genetic structure remains ch...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Rieux A,De Lapeyre De Bellaire L,Zapater MF,Ravigne V,Carlier J

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maternal inheritance is one of the hallmarks of animal mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and central to its success as a molecular marker. This mode of inheritance and subsequent lack of heterologous recombination allows us to retrace evolutionary relationships unambiguously down the matriline and without the confounding effe...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Wolff JN,Nafisinia M,Sutovsky P,Ballard JW

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：:A type of lower motor neuron (LMN) disease inherited as autosomal recessive in Romney sheep was characterized with normal appearance at birth, but with progressive weakness and tetraparesis after the first week of life. Here, we carried out genome-wide homozygosity mapping using Illumina Ovine SNP50 BeadChips on lambs...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Zhao X,Onteru SK,Dittmer KE,Parton K,Blair HT,Rothschild MF,Garrick DJ

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the asexual reproductive modes, androgenesis is probably one of the most astonishing and least studied mechanisms. In this 'paternal monopolization', the maternal nuclear genome fails to participate in zygote development and offspring are paternal nuclear clones. Obligate androgenesis is known in only a few orga...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Pigneur LM,Hedtke SM,Etoundi E,Van Doninck K

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies in empirical population genetics have highlighted the importance of taking into account both neutral and adaptive genetic variation in characterizing microevolutionary dynamics. Here, we explore the genetic population structure and the footprints of selection in four populations of the warm-temperate co...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Coscia I,Vogiatzi E,Kotoulas G,Tsigenopoulos CS,Mariani S

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic data have been widely used to reconstruct the demographic history of populations, including the estimation of migration rates, divergence times and relative admixture contribution from different populations. Recently, increasing interest has been given to the ability of genetic data to distinguish alternative ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Sousa VC,Beaumont MA,Fernandes P,Coelho MM,Chikhi L

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence suggests the frequent occurrence of a simple non-Darwinian (but non-Lamarckian) model for the evolution of adaptive phenotypic traits, here entitled the plasticity-relaxation-mutation (PRM) mechanism. This mechanism involves ancestral phenotypic plasticity followed by specialization in one alternative ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Hughes AL

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We dissected the relationship between genetic differentiation (Q(ST)) for a trait and its underlying genes (G(STq), differentiation for a quantitative locus) in an evolutionary context, with the aim of identifying the conditions in which these two measurements are decoupled. We used two parameters (θ(B) and θ(W)) scal...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Kremer A,Le Corre V

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A penalized maximum likelihood method has been proposed as an important approach to the detection of epistatic quantitative trait loci (QTL). However, this approach is not optimal in two special situations: (1) closely linked QTL with effects in opposite directions and (2) small-effect QTL, because the method produces...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Zhang J,Yue C,Zhang YM

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantifying the effect of pollen dispersal and flowering traits on mating success is essential for understanding evolutionary responses to changing environments and establishing strategies for forest tree breeding. This study examined, quantitatively, the effects of male fecundity, interindividual distance and anisotr...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Torimaru T,Wennström U,Lindgren D,Wang XR

更新日期：2012-03-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Genetic analyses of population structure can be placed in explicit environmental contexts if appropriate environmental data are available. Here, we use high-coverage and high-resolution oceanographic and genetic sequence data to assess population structure patterns and their potential environmental influences for hump...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Mendez M,Subramaniam A,Collins T,Minton G,Baldwin R,Berggren P,Särnblad A,Amir OA,Peddemors VM,Karczmarski L,Guissamulo A,Rosenbaum HC

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Principal components analysis of genetic data is used to avoid inflation in type I error rates in association testing due to population stratification by covariate adjustment using the top eigenvectors and to estimate cluster or group membership independent of self-reported or ethnic identities. Eigendecomposition tra...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Shriner D

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phlebotomus ariasi is one of the two sandflies transmitting the causative agent of zoonotic leishmaniasis, Leishmania infantum, in France and Iberia, and provides a rare case study of the postglacial re-colonization of France by a Mediterranean species. Four DNA sequences were analysed-mitochondrial cytochrome b (cyt ...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Mahamdallie SS,Pesson B,Ready PD

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive hybrids and their spread dynamics pose unique opportunities to study evolutionary processes. Invasive hybrids of native Spartina foliosa and introduced S. alterniflora have expanded throughout San Francisco Bay intertidal habitats within the past 35 years by deliberate plantation and seeds floating on the tid...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Sloop CM,Ayres DR,Strong DR

更新日期：2011-04-01 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：:Temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD) was first reported in 1966 in an African lizard. It has since been shown that TSD occurs in some fish, several lizards, tuataras, numerous turtles and all crocodilians. Extreme temperatures can also cause sex reversal in several amphibians and lizards with genotypic sex de...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Rhen T,Schroeder A,Sakata JT,Huang V,Crews D

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ecological theory of adaptive radiation predicts that the evolution of phenotypic diversity within species is generated by divergent natural selection arising from different environments and competition between species. Genetic connectivity among populations is likely also to have an important role in both the ori...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Kapralova KH,Morrissey MB,Kristjánsson BK,Olafsdóttir GÁ,Snorrason SS,Ferguson MM

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of selection on patterns of genetic structure within and between populations may be studied by contrasting observed patterns at the genes targeted by selection with those of unlinked neutral marker loci. Local directional selection on target genes will produce stronger population genetic structure than at n...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Leducq JB,Llaurens V,Castric V,Saumitou-Laprade P,Hardy OJ,Vekemans X

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been proposed that the distribution patterns and coalescence ages found in Europeans for mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroups V, H1 and H3 are the result of a post-glacial expansion from a Franco-Cantabrian refuge that recolonized central and northern areas. In contrast, in this refined mtDNA study of the Cant...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： García O,Fregel R,Larruga JM,Álvarez V,Yurrebaso I,Cabrera VM,González AM

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding genetic mechanisms of self-incompatibility (SI) and how they evolve is central to understanding the mating behaviour of most outbreeding angiosperms. Sporophytic SI (SSI) is controlled by a single multi-allelic locus, S, which is expressed in the diploid (sporophyte) plant to determine the SI phenotype o...

journal_title：Heredity

authors： Brennan AC,Tabah DA,Harris SA,Hiscock SJ

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00