Approach to Homozygosity at Autosomal and at Sex-Llnked Loci, under Repeated Full-Sib-Mating

Parent-Offspring and Full Sib Correlations under a Parent-Offspring Mating System.

Phenotypic and Genetic Analysis of Lori-Bakhtiari Lamb's Weight at Different Ages for Autosomal and Sex-Linked Genetic Effects

The data set used in this study contained 8793 records of lamb's weight (kg) from 320 sires and 2349 dams collected during 1989 to 2014 from the Lori-Bakhtiari flock at Shooli station in Shahrekord, Iran. Non-genetic factors and genetic parameters (partitioned into autosomal, sex-linked and maternal) of lamb's weight at different ages were estimated using without and with sex-linked genetic eff...

Female Fitness Optimum at Intermediate Mating Rates under Traumatic Mating

Traumatic mating behaviors often bear signatures of sexual conflict and are then typically considered a male strategy to circumvent female choice mechanisms. In an extravagant mating ritual, the hermaphroditic sea slug Siphopteron quadrispinosum pierces the integument of their mating partners with a syringe-like penile stylet that injects prostate fluids. Traumatic injection is followed by the ...

Allelic associations and homozygosity at loci from HLA-B to D6S299 in genetic haemochromatosis.

Haemochromatosis (GH) is an autosomal recessive disorder in which increased iron absorption causes iron overload. The gene (HFE) is closely linked to HLA-A on chromosome 6 (6p21.3) but has not yet been identified. We have examined eight polymorphic loci, HLA-B (most centromeric), I82, D6S265, HLA-A, D6S128, HLA-F, D6S105, and D6S299 (most telomeric) in 37 unrelated patients and 60 control subje...

Microsatellite length differences between humans and chimpanzees at autosomal Loci are not found at equivalent haploid Y chromosomal Loci.

When homologous microsatellites are compared between species, significant differences in mean length are often noted. A dominant cause of these length differences is ascertainment bias due to selection for maximum repeat number and repeat purity when the markers are being developed. However, even after ascertainment bias has been allowed for through reciprocal comparisons, significant length di...