The term diallel is a Greek word and implies all possible crosses among a collection of male and female animals. Hayman (1954a, 1954b) defined diallel cross as the set of all possible crosses between several genotypes, which may be individuals, clones, homozygous lines, etc. Diallel cross is most balanced and systematic experiment to examine continuous variation. The genetic information related...

the choice of an efficient breeding procedure depends to a large extent on knowledge of the genetic system controlling the character to be selected. the objective of this study was to determine genetic parameters for yield and other traits including some of the yield components under three planting densities, using analysis of generation means (p1, p2, f1, f2, bc1 and bc2) derived from crosses ...

Maintenance of genetic variation at loci under selection has profound implications for adaptation under environmental change. In temporally and spatially varying habitats, non-neutral polymorphism could be maintained by heterozygote advantage across environments (marginal overdominance), which could be greatly increased by beneficial reversal of dominance across conditions. We tested for revers...

Genetic crosses occur by transduction between the species Pseudomonas aeruginosa and P. putida. The frequency relative to intraspecific transfer is reduced and varies among markers, suggesting that these genomes contain discrete regions of homology and nonhomology.

Intra- and interspecific cross combinations between the tetraploid treefrog Hyla versicolor, and between H. versicolor and the diploid treefrog Hyla chrysoscelis were performed. Progeny phenotypes resulting from these crosses were examined electrophoretically using a polymorphic glutamate oxaloacetic transaminase (GOT-1) locus, to determine the mechanism of chromosome segregation in H. versicol...

The so-ealled "golden-cross" and "dead-cross" are said to be useful signals to forecast market trends. In this paper, we focus on the Japanese stock market where gold-crosses and dead-crosses are empirically considered as useful investment signals. First, we examined the usefulness of these signals by using historical Japanese stock price data. The results confirmed that these crosses were usef...