The genomic architecture and association genetics of adaptive characters using a candidate SNP approach in boreal black spruce

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Prunier, Julien ^a   Pelgas, Betty ^a,b   Gagnon, France ^a   Desponts, Mireille ^c   Isabel, Nathalie ^b   Beaulieu, Jean ^b   Bousquet, Jean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^c MINISTÈRE DES RESSOURCES NATURELLES ET DE LA FAUNE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLACK SPRUCE; BULKED SEGREGANT ANALYSIS; CONIFER; EFFECT SIZE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENE; PLANT HEIGHT; PLEIOTROPY; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TAIGA; TREE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLIMATE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PICEA; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; TIME FACTORS;

CONIFEROPHYTA; PICEA MARIANA;

EID: 84878374512     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-368     Document Type: Article

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