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Maternal genetic effects set the potential for evolution in a free-living vertebrate population.

Journal of evolutionary biology - 1 Mar 2005

Wilson A J, Coltman D W, Pemberton J M, Overall A D J, Byrne K A, Kruuk L E B

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Heritable maternal effects have important consequences for the evolutionary dynamics of phenotypic traits under selection, but have only rarely been tested for or quantified in evolutionary studies. Here we estimate maternal effects on early-life traits in a feral population of Soay sheep (Ovis aries) from St Kilda, Scotland. We then partition the maternal effects into genetic and environmental components to...

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PMID: 15715846
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2004.00824.x

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