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Testing for fitness epistasis in a transplant experiment identifies a candidate adaptive locus in Timema stick insects.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences - 18 Jul 2022
Villoutreix Romain, de Carvalho Clarissa F, Gompert Zachariah, Parchman Thomas L, Feder Jeffrey L, Nosil Patrik
Abstract excerpt
Identifying the genetic basis of adaptation is a central goal of evolutionary biology. However, identifying genes and mutations affecting fitness remains challenging because a large number of traits and variants can influence fitness. Selected phenotypes can also be difficult to know a priori, complicating top-down genetic approaches for trait mapping that involve crosses or genome-wide association studies. In...
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