Quantitative trait loci affecting survival and fertility-related traits in Caenorhabditis elegans show genotype-environment interactions, pleiotropy and epistasis

Genetics

Volumn 153, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1233-1243

  Shook, David R ^a,b   Johnson, Thomas E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMOSOME; EPISTASIS; FERTILITY; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; ENVIRONMENT; FERTILITY; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOTYPE; LARVA; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEXUAL MATURATION;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032734337     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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