Tightly linked antagonistic‐effect loci underlie polygenic phenotypic variation in C. elegans
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Selection at linked sites shapes heritable phenotypic variation in C. elegans.
Mutation generates the heritable variation that genetic drift and natural selection shape. In classical quantitative genetic models, drift is a function of the effective population size and acts uniformly across traits, whereas mutation and selection act trait-specifically. We identified thousands of quantitative trait loci (QTLs) influencing transcript abundance traits in a cross of two Caenor...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Evolution Letters
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2056-3744,2056-3744
DOI: 10.1002/evl3.139