Local effects drive heterozygosity–fitness correlations in an outcrossing long-lived tree

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 282, Issue 1820, 2015, Pages

  Rodríguez Quilón, Isabel ^a   Santos del Blanco, Luis ^b   Grivet, Delphine ^a   Jaramillo Correa, Juan Pablo ^a,c   Majada, Juan ^d   Vendramin, Giovanni G ^e   Alía, Ricardo ^a,f   González Martínez, Santiago C ^a,g,h  

^a INIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^d Área de Cultivos Hortofrutícolas y Forestales   (Spain)

^e Institute of Biosciences and BioResources   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

^g UMR 1202 BIOGECO   (France)

^h UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Genetic variation; Maritime pine; Single nucleotide polymorphism; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CONIFEROUS TREE; DEMOGRAPHIC HISTORY; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FITNESS; GENETIC VARIATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; INBREEDING; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; POLYMORPHISM; SURVIVAL;

PINUS PINASTER;

EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HETEROZYGOTE; PINE; PLANT GENOME; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GENETIC FITNESS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, PLANT; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HETEROZYGOTE; PINUS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84951745574     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.2230     Document Type: Article

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