scholarly journals Environmental induction of heritable changes in flax: defined environments inducing changes in rDNA and peroxidase isozyme band pattern

Heredity ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
C A Cullis
2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
SUNITA BORDE ◽  
ASAWARI FARTADE ◽  
AMOL THOSAR ◽  
RAHUL KHAWAL

Ptychobothridean genera like Senga and Circumoncobothrium are the common parasites of fresh water fishes. The genotypic study of these parasites was taken by RAPD. The RAPD profile of these two parasites were not similar to each other as depicted by the band pattern in picture. These results suggest the presence of inter-specific polymorphism among cestode parasites of two different genera for RAPD analysis. The present study demonstrated that genetic differentiation of cestode parasites could be accomplished on the basis of genomic variation with polymorphic band pattern using RAPD. All the detected bands (PCR product) were polymorphic and band size ranged from 500-5000 bp in length. The RAPD of profiles using GBO-31, GBO-32, GBO-33, GBO-34, GBO-35 and GBO-36. Primers were able to characterize inter-specific polymorphism among the two genus ( Senga and Circumoncobothrium ). Genetic analysis suggests that Senga and Circumoncobothrium show genetic diversity with respect to RAPD patterns using all the six primers used for the present study. The genetic distance between the analyzed genuses ranged from 0.14 to 0.80. The differentiation of the two parasites on the basis of genetic markers could greatly facilitate study on the biology of these parasites.


Author(s):  
Mary Jane West-Eberhard

The first comprehensive synthesis on development and evolution: it applies to all aspects of development, at all levels of organization and in all organisms, taking advantage of modern findings on behavior, genetics, endocrinology, molecular biology, evolutionary theory and phylogenetics to show the connections between developmental mechanisms and evolutionary change. This book solves key problems that have impeded a definitive synthesis in the past. It uses new concepts and specific examples to show how to relate environmentally sensitive development to the genetic theory of adaptive evolution and to explain major patterns of change. In this book development includes not only embryology and the ontogeny of morphology, sometimes portrayed inadequately as governed by "regulatory genes," but also behavioral development and physiological adaptation, where plasticity is mediated by genetically complex mechanisms like hormones and learning. The book shows how the universal qualities of phenotypes--modular organization and plasticity--facilitate both integration and change. Here you will learn why it is wrong to describe organisms as genetically programmed; why environmental induction is likely to be more important in evolution than random mutation; and why it is crucial to consider both selection and developmental mechanism in explanations of adaptive evolution. This book satisfies the need for a truly general book on development, plasticity and evolution that applies to living organisms in all of their life stages and environments. Using an immense compendium of examples on many kinds of organisms, from viruses and bacteria to higher plants and animals, it shows how the phenotype is reorganized during evolution to produce novelties, and how alternative phenotypes occupy a pivotal role as a phase of evolution that fosters diversification and speeds change. The arguments of this book call for a new view of the major themes of evolutionary biology, as shown in chapters on gradualism, homology, environmental induction, speciation, radiation, macroevolution, punctuation, and the maintenance of sex. No other treatment of development and evolution since Darwin's offers such a comprehensive and critical discussion of the relevant issues. Developmental Plasticity and Evolution is designed for biologists interested in the development and evolution of behavior, life-history patterns, ecology, physiology, morphology and speciation. It will also appeal to evolutionary paleontologists, anthropologists, psychologists, and teachers of general biology.


Author(s):  
Ghanshyam Singh ◽  
Binod Kumar Kanaujia ◽  
Vijay Kumar Pandey ◽  
Deepak Gangwar ◽  
Sachin Kumar

1995 ◽  
Vol 39 (8) ◽  
pp. 615-617 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keiko Seki ◽  
Junji Sakurada ◽  
Miyo Murai ◽  
Akemi Usui ◽  
Hee Kyong Seong ◽  
...  

1989 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 2743-2747
Author(s):  
H Schalch ◽  
J Gaskell ◽  
T L Smith ◽  
D Cullen

The genomic clones encoding lignin peroxidase isozyme H8 and two closely related genes were isolated from Phanerochaete chrysosporium BKM-1767, and their nucleotide sequences were determined. The positions and approximate lengths of introns were found to be highly conserved in all three clones. Analysis of homokaryotic derivatives indicated that the three clones are not alleles of the same gene(s).


2008 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. e1000089 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernardo Ramírez-Zavala ◽  
Oliver Reuß ◽  
Yang-Nim Park ◽  
Knut Ohlsen ◽  
Joachim Morschhäuser

2015 ◽  
Vol 229 (3) ◽  
pp. 221-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan D. Allen ◽  
Anne Frances Armstrong ◽  
Shelby L. Ziegler

1986 ◽  
Vol 106 (2) ◽  
pp. 427-428 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. B. Smith

The soluble tuber proteins of potato (Solatium tuberosum) may be separated by electrophoresis on the basis of charge or molecular weight (Stegemann & Schnick, 1982; Maier & Wagner, 1981: Park et al. 1983). Considerable cultivar specific variation exists in the band patterns of these proteins and separation of native proteins in 6% polyacrylamide gels at pH 7·9 has been used as the basis of characterizing cultivars for the Index of European Potato Varieties (Stegemann & Schnick, 1982).


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