More than the sum of its parts: A complex epistatic network underlies natural variation in thermal preference behavior in Caenorhabditis elegans

Genetics

Volumn 192, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1533-1542

  Gaertner, Bryn E ^a,d   Parmenter, Michelle D ^a,e   Rockman, Matthew V ^b   Kruglyak, Leonid ^c   Phillips, Patrick C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; TEMPERATURE; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GENETIC VARIATION; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; RECEPTORS, NEUROPEPTIDE Y; X CHROMOSOME;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 84870669888     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.112.142877     Document Type: Article

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