Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "animal genetics"

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    • The Genetic Signature of Sex-Biased Migration in Patrilocal Chimpanzees and Humans 

      Langergraber, Kevin E.; Siedel, Heike; Mitani, John C.; Reynolds, Vernon; Hunt, Kevin; Vigilant, Linda; Wrangham, Richard W. (Public Library of Science, 2007)
      A large body of theoretical work suggests that analyses of variation at the maternally inherited mitochondrial (mt)DNA and the paternally inherited non-recombining portion of the Y chromosome (NRY) are a potentially powerful ...

    • Genomic Hotspots for Adaptation: The Population Genetics of Müllerian Mimicry in the Heliconius melpomene Clade 

      Baxter, Simon W.; Nadeau, Nicola J.; Maroja, Luana S.; Wilkinson, Paul; Counterman, Brian A.; Dawson, Anna; Beltran, Margarita; Perez-Espona, Silvia; Ferguson, Laura; Davidson, Claire; Glithero, Rebecca; Mallet, James; Joron, Mathieu; ffrench-Constant, Richard H.; Jiggins, Chris D.; Chamberlain, Nicola L; Clark, Richard; McMillan, W. Owen; Kronforst, Marcus (Public Library of Science, 2010)
      Wing patterning in Heliconius butterflies is a longstanding example of both Müllerian mimicry and phenotypic radiation under strong natural selection. The loci controlling such patterns are “hotspots” for adaptive evolution ...

    • Melanism in Peromyscus Is Caused by Independent Mutations in Agouti 

      Kingsley, Evan Prentice; Manceau, Marie C.; Wiley, Christopher D.; Hoekstra, Hopi E. (Public Library of Science, 2009)
      Identifying the molecular basis of phenotypes that have evolved independently can provide insight into the ways genetic and developmental constraints influence the maintenance of phenotypic diversity. Melanic (darkly ...

    • A Novel Unstable Duplication Upstream of HAS2 Predisposes to a Breed-Defining Skin Phenotype and a Periodic Fever Syndrome in Chinese Shar-Pei Dogs 

      Olsson, Mia; Meadows, Jennifer R. S.; Rosengren Pielberg, Gerli; Puppo, Francesca; Mauceli, Evan; Quilez, Javier; Tonomura, Noriko; Zanna, Giordana; Bassols, Anna; Avery, Anne C.; Thomas, Anne; Kastner, Daniel L.; Bongcam-Rudloff, Erik; Webster, Matthew T.; Sanchez, Armand; Remmers, Elaine F.; Andersson, Leif; Ferrer, Lluis; Tintle, Linda; Lindblad-Toh, Kerstin; Georges, Michel; Truve, Katarina; Docampo, Maria Jose; Hedhammar, Ake; Karlsson, Elinor Kathryn (Public Library of Science, 2011)
      Hereditary periodic fever syndromes are characterized by recurrent episodes of fever and inflammation with no known pathogenic or autoimmune cause. In humans, several genes have been implicated in this group of diseases, ...

    • Using Whole-Genome Sequence Data to Predict Quantitative Trait Phenotypes in Drosophila melanogaster 

      Ober, Ulrike; Stone, Eric A.; Richards, Stephen; Zhu, Dianhui; Gibbs, Richard A.; Stricker, Christian; Gianola, Daniel; Schlather, Martin; Mackay, Trudy F. C.; Simianer, Henner; Ayroles, Julien (Public Library of Science, 2012)
      Predicting organismal phenotypes from genotype data is important for plant and animal breeding, medicine, and evolutionary biology. Genomic-based phenotype prediction has been applied for single-nucleotide polymorphism ...