SELECTION ON VARIANCE‐CONTROLLING GENES: ADAPTABILITY OR STABILITY |
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| Authors: | Mats E. Pettersson Ronald M. Nelson Örjan Carlborg |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Clinical Sciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden;2. E‐mail: mats.pettersson@slu.se |
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| Abstract: | Simulations on a model system where a variance‐controlling master locus scales the effects of a set of effector loci show that selection affects the variance‐controlling locus more strongly than the effector loci, and that the direction of selection is dependent on the frequency of environmental changes. |
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| Keywords: | Adaptation epistasis genetic variation models/simulations |
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