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Epistasis in natural populations of a predominantly selfing plant.
Heredity - 1 Feb 2011
Volis S, Shulgina I, Zaretsky M, Koren O
Abstract excerpt
Populations of predominantly selfing plant species often show spatial genetic structure but little is known whether epistatic gene interactions are spatially structured. To detect a possible epistatic effect and a spatial scale at which it operates, we created artificial crosses between plants spanning a range of fixed distances from 1 to 400 m in three populations of wild barley. The self-pollinated and crossed...
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