The genetic basis of adaptive population differentiation: A quantitative trait locus analysis of fitness traits in two wild barley populations from contrasting habitats

Evolution

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 270-283

  Verhoeven, Koen J F ^a,d   Vanhala, Tytti K ^b   Biere, Arjen ^a   Nevo, Eviatar ^c   Van Damme, Jos M M ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antagonistic pleiotropy; Fitness quantitative trait loci; Genetic trade off; Heterosis; Hordeum spontaneum; Local adaptation

Indexed keywords

BARLEY; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC VARIATION; HABITAT TYPE; INTERPOPULATION VARIATION; LOCAL ADAPTATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST;

EMBRYOPHYTA; HORDEUM; HORDEUM SPONTANEUM; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. SPONTANEUM; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE;

EID: 1642352774     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2004.tb01644.x     Document Type: Article

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