Epistasis as a source of increased additive genetic variance at population bottlenecks

Evolution

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1042-1051

  Cheverud, James M ^a   Routman, Eric J ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Additive genetic variance; epistasis; mouse; population bottlenecks; quantitative trait loci

Indexed keywords

EPISTASIS; GENETIC VARIANCE; POPULATION BOTTLENECK;

EID: 0029661339     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1996.tb02345.x     Document Type: Article

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