Fitness distribution and transgressive segregation across 40 environments in a hybrid progeny population of the human-pathogenic yeast Cryptococcus neoformans

Genome

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 272-281

  Shahid, Morvarid ^a   Han, Susan ^a   Yoell, Heather ^a   Xu, Jianping ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Drug resistance; Genotype environment interaction; Hybridization; Transgressive segregation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHIMERA; CROSS BREEDING; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; ENVIRONMENT; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HETEROSIS; HYBRIDIZATION; PHENOTYPE;

CHIMERA; CROSSES, GENETIC; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; ENVIRONMENT; GENOTYPE; HYBRID VIGOR; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE;

FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FUNGI;

EID: 43549114506     PISSN: 08312796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/G08-004     Document Type: Article

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