Drosophila bristles and the nature of quantitative genetic variation

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 360, Issue 1459, 2005, Pages 1513-1527

  Mackay, Trudy F C ^a   Lyman, Richard F ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Genetic variance of environmental plasticity; Linkage disequilibrium mapping; P element mutagenesis; Quantitative trait loci mapping

Indexed keywords

SENSORY SYSTEM;

EID: 31344444632     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2005.1672     Document Type: Review

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