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The effect of a population bottleneck on the evolution of genetic variance/covariance structure.
Journal of evolutionary biology - 1 Oct 2011
Jarvis J P, Cropp S N, Vaughn T T, Pletscher L S, King-Ellison K, Adams-Hunt E, Erickson C, Cheverud J M
Abstract excerpt
It is well known that standard population genetic theory predicts decreased additive genetic variance (V(a) ) following a population bottleneck and that theoretical models including interallelic and intergenic interactions indicate such loss may be avoided. However, few empirical data from multicellular model systems are available, especially regarding variance/covariance (V/CV) relationships. Here, we compare...
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