G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics (Dec 2022)

Variation in mutational (co)variances

  • François Mallard,
  • Luke Noble,
  • Charles F Baer,
  • Henrique Teotónio

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkac335
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 2

Abstract

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AbstractBecause of pleiotropy, mutations affect the expression and inheritance of multiple traits and, together with selection, are expected to shape standing genetic covariances between traits and eventual phenotypic divergence between populations. It is therefore important to find if the MMCaenorhabditis elegansMMMGMMGMGMC. elegans