QTL mapping for sexually dimorphic fitness-related traits in wild bighorn sheep

Heredity

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 256-263

  Poissant, J ^a   Davis, C S ^a   Malenfant, R M ^a   Hogg, J T ^b   Coltman, D W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Montana Conservation Science Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

adaptive variation; animal model; domestic sheep; Ovis aries; sexual dimorphism; sexual selection

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

CORRELATION; DOMESTIC SPECIES; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FITNESS; GENETIC VARIATION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SEXUAL SELECTION; SHEEP; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME MAP; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; MALE; MATE CHOICE; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SHEEP;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENETIC FITNESS; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SHEEP, BIGHORN;

ALBERTA; CANADA; RAM MOUNTAIN;

ANIMALIA; OVIS ARIES; OVIS CANADENSIS;

EID: 84857233428     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: 13652540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2011.69     Document Type: Article

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