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Fitness effects associated with the major flowering time gene FRIGIDA in Arabidopsis thaliana in the field.
The American naturalist - 1 May 2007
Korves Tonia M, Schmid Karl J, Caicedo Ana L, Mays Charlotte, Stinchcombe John R, Purugganan Michael D, Schmitt Johanna
Abstract excerpt
To date, the effect of natural selection on candidate genes underlying complex traits has rarely been studied experimentally, especially under ecologically realistic conditions. Here we report that the effect of selection on the flowering time gene FRIGIDA (FRI) reverses depending on the season of germination and allelic variation at the interacting gene FLOWERING LOCUS C (FLC). In field studies of 136 European...
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