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Selection and microevolution of coat pattern are cryptic in a wild population of sheep.
Molecular ecology - 1 Jun 2012
Gratten J, Pilkington J G, Brown E A, Clutton-Brock T H, Pemberton J M, Slate J
Abstract excerpt
Understanding the maintenance of genetic variation in natural populations is a core aim of evolutionary genetics. Insight can be gained by quantifying selection at the level of the genotype, as opposed to the phenotype. Here, we show that in a natural population of Soay sheep which is polymorphic for coat pattern, recessive genetic variants at the causal gene, agouti signalling protein (ASIP) are associated with...
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