Discover Community Create You

Loading publication...

Noodle always counts identifier-free feature events for service operation. With your permission, Google Analytics can also estimate audience and engagement. Search text, publication identifiers, cookies, IP addresses and browser fingerprints are never included in Noodle's first-party event counters.

Privacy details

Article

A localized negative genetic correlation constrains microevolution of coat color in wild sheep.

Science (New York, N.Y.) - 18 Jan 2008

Gratten J, Wilson A J, McRae A F, Beraldi D, Visscher P M, Pemberton J M, Slate J

Abstract excerpt

The evolutionary changes that occur over a small number of generations in natural populations often run counter to what is expected on the basis of the heritability of traits and the selective forces acting upon them. In Soay sheep, dark coat color is associated with large size, which is heritable and positively correlated with fitness, yet the frequency of dark sheep has decreased. This unexpected...

Read the complete abstract on PubMed

Topics

Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.

Share to Animals, Wild
Share to Birth Weight
Share to Body Size

Methodology Data sources Editorial policy Privacy About Contact Helena Bioinformatics

Share to Hair Color

Share to Linear Models

Share to Oxidoreductases

Share to Scotland

Source

Identifiers

PMID: 18202287
DOI: 10.1126/science.1151182

Provenance

PubMed metadata and Literature Corpus relationships. Corpus snapshot updated 6 Sept 2026. Manifest publication-graph-cohort-2026-09-06.1.

Source receipt: pubmed, retrieved 6 Sept 2026.

Related research

Semantic proximity does not establish scientific evidence.

Research trail→

Click a neighbor to travelStep 1 · 12 closest

A localized negative genetic correlation constrains microevolution of coat color in wild sheep.PMID 18202287Read ↗

Selection and microevolution of coat pattern are cryptic in a wild population of sheep.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Compelling evidence that a single nucleotide substitution in TYRP1 is responsible for coat-colour polymorphism in a free-living population of Soay sheep.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Genetics, development and evolution of adaptive pigmentation in vertebrates.Semantic proximity Read ↗

The genetic basis of recessive self-colour pattern in a wild sheep population.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Coat color alterations over the years and their association with growth performances in the Menz sheep central nucleus and community-based breeding programs.Semantic proximity Read ↗

The genetics of adaptive coat color in gophers: coding variation at Mc1r is not responsible for dorsal color differences.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Coat colour in mouse populations selected for weight gain: support for hitchhiking, not pleiotropy.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Development of a linkage map and mapping of phenotypic polymorphisms in a free-living population of Soay sheep (Ovis aries).Semantic proximity Read ↗

Colours of domestication.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Introgression and the fate of domesticated genes in a wild mammal population.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Artificial Selection Response due to Polygenic Adaptation from a Multilocus, Multiallelic Genetic Architecture.Semantic proximity Read ↗

The role of humans in facilitating and sustaining coat colour variation in domestic animals.Semantic proximity Read ↗

⌁Select a neighboring publication to make it the new centre.