Heritability of asymmetry and lateral plate number in the threespine stickleback

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Loehr, John ^a   Leinonen, Tuomas ^a   Herczeg, Gabor ^a   O'Hara, Robert B ^a,b   Merilä, Juha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE BIK F   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREEDING METHOD; FEMALE; FISH; FISH GENETICS; FLUCTUATING ASYMMETRY; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENE NUMBER; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HERITABILITY; MALE; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FEMALE; MALE; MESODERM; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SMEGMAMORPHA;

GASTEROSTEUS; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS;

EID: 84863653796     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039843     Document Type: Article

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