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yellow0, a marker for low body weight in Drosophila melanogaster.
Science in China. Series C, Life sciences - 1 Jul 2009
Li XinHai, Deng XueMei
Abstract excerpt
Marker-assisted selection (MAS) is an important modern breeding technique, but it has been found that the effect of the markers for quantitative trait loci (QTL) is inconsistent, leading in some cases to MAS failure and raising doubts about its effectiveness. Here the model organism Drosophila melanogaster was employed to study whether an effective marker could be found and applied to MAS. We crossed the stock...
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