Identification of major and minor QTL for ecologically important morphological traits in three-spined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus)

G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 595-604

  Liu, Jun ^a   Shikano, Takahito ^b   Leinonen, Tuomas ^b   Cano, José Manuel ^c   Li, Meng Hua ^a   Merilä, Juha ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c Research Unit of Biodiversity (UO CSIC PA)   (Spain)

Author keywords

Body shape; Gasterosteus aculeatus; Genetic linkage map; Morphology; QTL

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY BUILD; BODY SIZE; DNA EXTRACTION; FEMALE; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOTYPE; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; NULL ALLELE; PELVIC GIRDLE; PLEIOTROPY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; SEGREGATION ANALYSIS; SEGREGATION DISTORTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPINE;

EID: 84898900381     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21601836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/g3.114.010389     Document Type: Article

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