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Testing natural selection vs. genetic drift in phenotypic evolution using quantitative trait locus data.

Genetics - 1 Aug 1998

Orr H A

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Evolutionary biologists have long sought a way to determine whether a phenotypic difference between two taxa was caused by natural selection or random genetic drift. Here I argue that data from quantitative trait locus (QTL) analyses can be used to test the null hypothesis of neutral phenotypic e...

Topics

Alleles
Animals
Biological Evolution
Drosophila
Gene Frequency
Solanum lycopersicum
Models, Genetic
Phenotype
Quantitative Trait, Heritable
Selection, Genetic
Zea mays

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PMID: 9691061
DOI: 10.1093/genetics/149.4.2099
PMCID: PMC1460271

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