Smaller, scale-free gene networks increase quantitative trait heritability and result in faster population recovery

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Malcom, Jacob W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HERITABILITY; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; POPULATION RECOVERY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TIME;

GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79951800192     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014645     Document Type: Article

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