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Antagonistic pleiotropic effects reduce the potential adaptive value of the FRIGIDA locus.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 23 Oct 2007
Scarcelli Nora, Cheverud James M, Schaal Barbara A, Kover Paula X
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Although the occurrence of epistasis and pleiotropy is widely accepted at the molecular level, its effect on the adaptive value of fitness-related genes is rarely investigated in plants. Knowledge of these features of a gene is critical to understand the molecular basis of adaptive evolution. Her...
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