In contrast, to our knowledge, no trans-silenced transgene has been shown to acquire heritable trans-silencing ability suggesting that perhaps trans-silencing ability is more difficult to relay between non-allelic transgenes than between allelic loci.
Mathematics ability and disability is as heritable as other cognitive abilities and disabilities, however its genetic etiology has received relatively little attention.
Specifically, achievement independent of ability may be just as heritable as achievement including ability because achievement is as much a function of genetically-driven appetites as of aptitudes.
Reading and language abilities are heritable traits that are likely to share some genetic influences with each other.
Cognitive ability is a highly heritable trait, with heritability estimates ranging from 40% in young childhood to 80% in late adulthood.
We expect that if genetic diversity is reasonably large, there will be heritable variation in competitive ability among individuals.
The important prediction of this hypothesis is that this can only be beneficial for the recipient if the dart is shot consistently by individuals (assuming that shooting ability is heritable).
However, if sperm competitive ability is heritable, females A and B will benefit through the offspring sired by male M because of the inheritance of high absolute sperm competitive ability that will confer, on average and despite stochastic influences (contingent on the distribution of sperm competitiveness in the population of males), high fertilization success.
Drosophila populations harbor heritable variation in their ability to withstand the proposed fungal chemical shield because, more than 20 years ago, Melone and Chinnici [ 24] were able to select larval D. melanogaster populations for reduced sensitivity to the mycotoxins, such as Aflatoxin B1, that filamentous fungi secrete into the surrounding environment.
In conjunction with evidence that WM abilities are substantially heritable, the current results support the validity and usefulness of verbal WM impairments in manipulation of information as endophenotypes for schizophrenia in large-scale genetic linkage and association studies.
