Heritability of heterozygosity offers a new way of understanding why dominant gene action contributes to additive genetic variance

Evolution

Volumn 69, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1948-1952

  Nietlisbach, Pirmin ^a   Hadfield, Jarrod D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Nonadditive gene action; Parent offspring covariance; Quantitative genetics

Indexed keywords

GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIATION; HERITABILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PHENOTYPE;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DOMINANT GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIATION; HEREDITY; HETEROZYGOTE;

GENE FREQUENCY; GENES, DOMINANT; GENETIC VARIATION; HEREDITY; HETEROZYGOTE; MODELS, GENETIC;

EID: 84937687338     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/evo.12704     Document Type: Article

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