Combining population genomics and quantitative genetics: Finding the genes underlying ecologically important traits

Heredity

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 158-170

  Stinchcombe, J R ^a   Hoekstra, H E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Ecological genomics; Genetic mapping; Genome scans; Linkage map; Natural selection

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENOMICS; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; NATURAL SELECTION; POPULATION GENETICS;

ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HUMAN; PLANT; POPULATION GENETICS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOMICS; HUMANS; PLANTS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 38549103015     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: 13652540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.hdy.6800937     Document Type: Short Survey

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