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Genome-wide association mapping identifies the genetic basis of discrete and quantitative variation in sexual weaponry in a wild sheep population.

Molecular ecology - 1 Jun 2011

Johnston Susan E, McEwan John C, Pickering Natalie K, Kijas James W, Beraldi Dario, Pilkington Jill G, Pemberton Josephine M, Slate Jon

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Understanding the genetic architecture of phenotypic variation in natural populations is a fundamental goal of evolutionary genetics. Wild Soay sheep (Ovis aries) have an inherited polymorphism for horn morphology in both sexes, controlled by a single autosomal locus, Horns. The majority of males have large normal horns, but a small number have vestigial, deformed horns, known as scurs; females have either normal...

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PMID: 21651634
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05076.x

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