Replicable populations, such as panels of recombinant inbred or doubled haploid lines, are convenient resources for the mapping of QTL. To increase mapping power, replications are often collected within each RI line and a common way to analyze such data is to include in the QTL model only a single measurement from each line that represents the average among the replicates (a line means model). ...

The frequency distribution of DNA content of human sperm was measured in an automated flow microfluorometer. The flow method measures the DNA content by quantifying the amount of fluorescence emitted by the fluorescent Feulgen stained DNA of single sperm cells suspended in microdroplets. The variability in the mean value for the haploid amount of DNA in sperm from 15 randomly chosen donors was ...

1. Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA 98195, USA 2. Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA 3. McDonnell Genome Institute, Department of Medicine, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63108, USA 4. Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh...

Cot curves derived from renaturation kinetics of sheared denatured DNA indicated that the genome of six populations representing the four most common root-knot nematode species (Meloidogyne incognita, M. arenaria, M. javanica, and M. hapla) is composed of 20% repetitive and 80% nonrepetitive sequences of DNA. Cot curves were almost identical, indicating that all populations had a haploid genome...

Sexual eukaryotic organisms are characterized by haploid and diploid nuclear phases. In many organisms, growth and development occur in both haploid and diploid phases, and the relative length of these phases exhibits considerable diversity. A number of hypotheses have been put forward to explain the maintenance of this diversity of life cycles and the advantage of being haploid versus that of ...

In haploid and diploid S. cerevisiae the dimer yield ratio TT/CT is found to be 1.2/1 and 1.3/1, resp., at the UV (254 nm) unit dose 1 erg/mm2, the share of TT and CT in a UV (254 nm) lethal hit being 0.7 TT and 0.6 CT. A general formulation of the UV lethal hit is given and discussed. The TT+CT yields obtained for S. cerevisiae are compared to those reported for other organisms. It is found th...

Whether in sexual or asexual organisms, selection among cell lineages during development is an effective way of eliminating deleterious mutations. Using a mathematical analysis, we find that relatively small differences in cell replication rates during development can translate into large differences in the proportion of mutant cells within the adult, especially when development involves a larg...

INTRODUCTION Reducing plant height has played an important role in improving crop yields. The success of a breeding program relies on the source of dwarfing genes. For a dwarfing or semi-dwarfing gene to be successfully used in a breeding program, the gene should have minimal negative effects on yield and perform consistently in different environments. METHODS In this study, 182 doubled haplo...

Yeast protoplasts from haploid auxotroph strains DC6 (MATα) and FY73 (MATα) were exposed to an inhomogeneous alternating field (AC 200 V/cm). Due to the dielectrophoretic aggregation two or more cells with close membrane contact were formed between the two electrodes. The effects of different DC pulses were investigated to determine critical fusogenic pulse strength. In the results, the maximum...

Three antibiotic-resistance mutations were isolated from strain FL496-2B: two are independent Mendelian genes, one conferring both oligomycin and venturicidin resistance (oli(R) (496)) and the other conferring cycloheximide resistance (cyh(R) (496)). The third is a mitochondrial mutation, O(R) (9), and confers a low level of oligomycin resistance to cells (in vivo) but not to the extracted mito...