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Dominance Can Increase Genetic Variance After a Population Bottleneck: A Synthesis of the Theoretical and Empirical Evidence.
The Journal of heredity - 9 Jul 2022
Mularo Andrew J, Bernal Ximena E, DeWoody J Andrew
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Drastic reductions in population size, or population bottlenecks, can lead to a reduction in additive genetic variance and adaptive potential. Genetic variance for some quantitative genetic traits, however, can increase after a population reduction. Empirical evaluations of quantitative traits following experimental bottlenecks indicate that non-additive genetic effects, including both allelic dominance at a...
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