The Effects of Spontaneous Mutation on Quantitative Traits. I. Variances and Covariances of Life History Traits

We have accumulated spontaneous mutations in the absence of natural selection in Drosophila melanogaster by backcrossing 200 heterozygous replicates of a single high fitness second chromosome to a balancer stock for 44 generations. At generations 33 and 44 of accumulation, we extracted samples of ch...

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Main Authors: Houle, D., Hughes, K. A., Hoffmaster, D. K., Ihara, J., Assimacopoulos, S., Canada, D., Charlesworth, B.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 1994
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1206226/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7851773
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