Article
Protected polymorphism and evolutionary stability in pleiotropic models with trait-specific dominance.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Oct 2006
Van Dooren Tom J M
Abstract excerpt
When alleles have pleiotropic effects on a number of quantitative traits, the degree of dominance between a pair of alleles can be different for each trait. Such trait-specific dominance has been studied previously in models for the maintenance of genetic variation by antagonistic effects of an allele on two fitness components. By generalizing these models to an arbitrary number of fitness components or other...
Topics
- Biological Evolution
- Genes, Dominant
- Heterozygote
- Models, Genetic
- Mutation
- Polymorphism, Genetic