Tag: quantitative genetics

A study of 965 Eastern yellowjacket wasps found that caste, colony and paternal family contribute to wing shape, while weak ...

Advanced-generation recombinant progenies derived from an F₂ maize population were used to fine-map qMd3, narrowing a chromosome 3 candidate interval ...

Cave biologist Daniel Wu Fong, whose decades of quantitative genetic and molecular work on the amphipod Gammarus minus demonstrated that ...

A new review argues that crop wild relatives hold vast untapped genetic diversity, but translating it into better cultivars requires ...

Researchers combined linkage mapping and association analysis in maize to identify the β-amylase 4 gene Zm00001d039265 and a single SNP ...

A decades-long study of Dutch great tits shows that post-selective immigration, not selection alone, governs whether clutch size evolves or ...

A random regression study of 575 Japanese quails shows that genetic selection between 21 and 35 days of age yields ...

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have developed and validated the first analytical framework for estimating genetic covariance between plant ...

A genomic analysis of 5,859 commercial pigs reveals that runs of homozygosity, a DNA-based measure of inbreeding, are associated with ...

Researchers at Tamil Nadu Agricultural University have mapped nine major quantitative trait loci governing crude protein and fiber traits in ...