Mapping quantitative trait loci in plants: Uses and caveats for evolutionary biology

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 370-381

  Mauricio, Rodney ^a  

^a University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

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PISUM SATIVUM;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COTTON; GENETICS; GENOME; GENOTYPE; MAIZE; PLANT; POLYPLOIDY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; REVIEW; TOMATO;

GENOME, PLANT; GENOTYPE; GOSSYPIUM; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MODELS, GENETIC; PLANTS; POLYPLOIDY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0035350685     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35072085     Document Type: Review

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