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Nonadditive genetic components in resistance of the red flour beetle Tribolium castanaeum against parasite infection.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Sept 2008
Wegner K Mathias, Berenos Camillo, Schmid-Hempel Paul
Abstract excerpt
Genetically coupled antagonistic coevolution between host and parasites can select for the maintenance of recombination in the host. Mechanistically, maintenance of recombination relies on epistatic interactions between resistance genes creating linkage disequilibria (LD). The role of epistasis in host resistance traits is however only partly understood. Therefore, we applied the joint scaling principle to assess...
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