Explaining the heritability of an ecologically significant trait in terms of individual quantitative trait loci

Biology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 896-898

  Scoville, Alison G ^a   Lee, Young Wha ^b   Willis, John H ^b   Kelly, John K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Flower size; Genome wide association studies (GWAS); Heritability; Mimulus guttatus; QTLs

Indexed keywords

BREEDING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLORAL TRAIT; GENETIC VARIATION; HERB; HERITABILITY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MAPPING;

EID: 82455192866     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2011.0409     Document Type: Article

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