The Evolution and Adaptive Potential of Transcriptional Variation in Sticklebacks—Signatures of Selection and Widespread Heritability

Evidence implicating differential gene expression as a significant driver of evolutionary novelty continues to accumulate, but our understanding of the underlying sources of variation in expression, both environmental and genetic, is wanting. Heritability in particular may be underestimated when inf...

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Main Authors: Leder, Erica H., McCairns, R.J. Scott, Leinonen, Tuomas, Cano, José M., Viitaniemi, Heidi M., Nikinmaa, Mikko, Primmer, Craig R., Merilä, Juha
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4327155/