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Open AccessConcurrently map** quantitative trait loci associations from multiple subspecies within hybrid populations
Many of the world’s agriculturally important plant and animal populations consist of hybrids of subspecies. Cattle in tropical and sub-tropical regions for example, originate from two subspecies, Bos taurus indic...
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Male and female genotype and a genotype-by-genotype interaction mediate the effects of mating on cellular but not humoral immunity in female decorated crickets
Sexually antagonistic coevolution is predicted to lead to the divergence of male and female genotypes related to the effects of substances transferred by males at mating on female physiology. The outcome of ma...
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Open AccessPhenology and related traits for wheat adaptation
Wheat is a major food crop, with around 765 million tonnes produced globally. The largest wheat producers include the European Union, China, India, Russia, United States, Canada, Pakistan, Australia, Ukraine a...
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Genetic homogeneity in the face of morphological heterogeneity in the harbor porpoise from the Black Sea and adjacent waters (Phocoena phocoena relicta)
Absence of genetic differentiation is usually taken as an evidence of panmixia, but can also reflect other situations, including even nearly complete demographic independence among large-sized populations. Dec...
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Conservation priorities for endangered coastal North African Pennisetum glaucum L. landrace populations as inferred from phylogenetic considerations and population structure analysis
The increasing anthropologic pressure and the modernization of agriculture have led to a forsaking of pearl millet traditional cultivars, inducing a progressive loss of the genetic variability encompassed in t...
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Heritability of climate-relevant traits in a rainforest skink
There is justified concern about the impact of global warming on the persistence of tropical ectotherms. There is also growing evidence for strong selection on climate-relevant physiological traits. Understand...
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Fine-scale temperature-associated genetic structure between inshore and offshore populations of sea scallop (Placopecten magellanicus)
In the northwest Atlantic Ocean, sea scallop (Placopecten magellanicus) has been characterized by a latitudinal genetic cline with a breakpoint between northern and southern genetic clusters occurring at ~45°N al...
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Recent advances in vertebrate and invertebrate transgenerational immunity in the light of ecology and evolution
Parental experience with parasites and pathogens can lead to increased offspring resistance to infection, through a process known as transgenerational immune priming (TGIP). Broadly defined, TGIP occurs across...
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Application of SNPs for assessing biodiversity and phylogeny among yeast strains
We examined the efficacy of single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers for the assessment of the phylogeny and biodiversity of Saccharomyces strains. Each of 32 Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains was genotyped at...
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Evidence for a major gene affecting the transition from normoglycaemia to hyperglycaemia in Psammomys obesus
We investigated the mode of inheritance of nutritionally induced diabetes in the desert gerbil Psammomys obesus (sand rat), following transfer from low-energy (LE) to high-energy (HE) diet which induces hyperglyc...
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Genetic architecture of fitness and nonfitness traits: empirical patterns and development of ideas
Comparative studies of the genetic architecture of different types of traits were initially prompted by the expectation that traits under strong directional selection (fitness traits) should have lower levels ...
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Recent studies of avian sex ratios
Sex allocation theory, and its success in predicting sex ratios in such taxa as parasitoid wasps, is often cited as one of the crowning achievements of theoretical evolutionary biology. Its success in some ver...
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Period-homologous sequence polymorphisms in subterranean mammals of the Spalax ehrenbergi superspecies in Israel
Restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLPs) of the mouse period-homologous sequence were studied in 13 populations of the four chromosomal species (2n = 52, 54, 58 and 60) of the mole rat, Spalax ehrenbergi ...
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Population genetics of the moss Plagiothecium undulatum (Hedw.) Schimp. I. Inheritance of allozymes
Twenty-one allozyme loci were assayed in a subpopulation of the dioecious moss Plagiothecium undulatum. Six loci were polymorphic and could be used to demonstrate the different expression of allozymes at the hapl...
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Haptoglobin DNA polymorphism in subterranean mole rats of the Spalax ehrenbergi superspecies in Israel
We analyzed the genetic diversity and environmental correlates of the haptoglobin (Hp) gene by RFLP analysis of 121 subterranean mole rats, comprising 13 populations belonging to the 4 chromosomal species (2n ...