Endocranial volume is variable and heritable, but not related to fitness, in a free-ranging primate
Scientific Reports, 2021 Large relative brain size is a defining characteristic of the order Primates. Arguably, this can be attributed to selection for behavioral aptitudes linked to a larger brain size.
Abigail E. Colby +2 more
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Can we breed hail-resilient wheat? Insights from a hail affected breeding trial [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant ScienceHail-induced yield loss threatens wheat-based food security across the globe, yet hail damage has largely remained unexplored as a quantifiable breeding phenotype.
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Quantitative trait loci and transcriptome signatures associated with avian heritable resistance to Campylobacter [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 Campylobacter is the leading cause of bacterial foodborne gastroenteritis worldwide. Handling or consumption of contaminated poultry meat is a key risk factor for human campylobacteriosis.
Androniki Psifidi +16 more
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Heritability of bipolar affective disorder: Family study [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2011 Background/Aim. Bipolar affective disorder is mental disorder with polygenic type of heredity. Heritability - relation between genetic and environmental variance is used to estimate the level of influence of genetic variance to phenotype variance ...
Obradović Tanja +3 more
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Frontiers in Genetics, 2023 Introduction: Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) causes respiratory disease in piglets and reproductive disease in sows. Piglet and fetal serum thyroid hormone (i.e., T3 and T4) levels decrease rapidly in response to Porcine ...
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Capturing indirect genetic effects on phenotypic variability: Competition meets canalization
Evolutionary Applications, 2022 Phenotypic variability of a genotype is relevant both in natural and domestic populations. In the past two decades, variability has been studied as a heritable quantitative genetic trait in its own right, often referred to as inherited variability or ...
Jovana Marjanovic +4 more
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Mapping determinants of gene expression plasticity by genetical genomics in C. elegans. [PDF]
PLoS Genetics, 2006 Recent genetical genomics studies have provided intimate views on gene regulatory networks. Gene expression variations between genetically different individuals have been mapped to the causal regulatory regions, termed expression quantitative trait loci.
Yang Li +11 more
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Anterior chamber depth in mice is controlled by several quantitative trait loci.
PLoS ONE, 2023 Anterior chamber depth (ACD) is a quantitative trait associated with primary angle closure glaucoma (PACG). Although ACD is highly heritable, known genetic variations explain a small fraction of the phenotypic variability.
Demelza R Larson +3 more
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A population genetic interpretation of GWAS findings for human quantitative traits. [PDF]
PLoS Biology, 2018 Human genome-wide association studies (GWASs) are revealing the genetic architecture of anthropomorphic and biomedical traits, i.e., the frequencies and effect sizes of variants that contribute to heritable variation in a trait.
Yuval B Simons +3 more
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Genetically Distinct Behavioral Modules Underlie Natural Variation in Thermal Performance Curves
G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 2019 Thermal reaction norms pervade organismal traits as stereotyped responses to temperature, a fundamental environmental input into sensory and physiological systems. Locomotory behavior represents an especially plastic read-out of animal response, with its
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