Evolution of salamander life cycles: A major-effect quantitative trait locus contributes to discrete and continuous variation for metamorphic timing

Genetics

Volumn 170, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 275-281

  Voss, S R ^a   Smith, J J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR MARKER;

AGE; AMBYSTOMA; AMBYSTOMA MEXICANUM; AMBYSTOMA TIGRINUM; ARTICLE; BACKCROSSING; BIPHASIC LIFE CYCLE; CHRONOBIOLOGY; CONTINUOUS VARIABILITY; EVOLUTION; GENE; GENETIC CROSS; GENOTYPE; LARVA; LIFE CYCLE; MET GENE; METAMORPHIC AGE; METAMORPHOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PAEDOGENESIS; PAEDOMORPHOSIS; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SALAMANDER;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; LARVA; LINKAGE (GENETICS); PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; URODELA;

AMBYSTOMA TIGRINUM TIGRINUM; AMPHIUMA MEANS; CAUDATA;

EID: 20444403783     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.104.038273     Document Type: Article

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