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SUBMITTER: Gaertner BE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3512158 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gaertner Bryn E BE Parmenter Michelle D MD Rockman Matthew V MV Kruglyak Leonid L Phillips Patrick C PC
Genetics 20121019 4
Behavior is a complex trait that results from interactions among multiple genes and the environment. Both additive and nonadditive effects are expected to contribute to broad-sense heritability of complex phenotypes, although the relative contribution of each of these mechanisms is unknown. Here, we mapped genetic variation in the correlated phenotypes of thermal preference and isothermal dispersion in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Genetic variation underlying these traits is characterize ...[more]