Article
Sex, mixability, and modularity.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 26 Jan 2010
Livnat Adi, Papadimitriou Christos, Pippenger Nicholas, Feldman Marcus W
Abstract excerpt
The assumption that different genetic elements can make separate contributions to the same quantitative trait was originally made in order to reconcile biometry and Mendelism and ever since has been used in population genetics, specifically for the trait of fitness. Here we show that sex is responsible for the existence of separate genetic effects on fitness and, more generally, for the existence of a hierarchy...
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