The action of stabilizing selection, mutation, and drift on epistatic quantitative traits

Evolution

Volumn 68, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1974-1987

  Ávila, Victoria ^a,b   Pérez Figueroa, Andrés ^a   Caballero, Armando ^a   Hill, William G ^b   García Dorado, Aurora ^c   López Fanjul, Carlos ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Epistasis; Genetic drift; Genetic variation; Quantitative genetics

Indexed keywords

EPISTASIS; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME; MUTATION; POPULATION BOTTLENECK; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EPISTASIS; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; MUTATION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GENETIC DRIFT; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84903547334     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/evo.12413     Document Type: Article

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