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SUBMITTER: Monnahan PJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4571682 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Monnahan Patrick J PJ Kelly John K JK
Biology letters 20150801 8
The extent to which gene interaction or epistasis contributes to fitness variation within populations remains poorly understood, despite its importance to a myriad of evolutionary questions. Here, we report a multi-year field study estimating fitness of Mimulus guttatus genetic lines in which pairs of naturally segregating loci exist in an otherwise uniform background. An allele at QTL x5b-a locus originally mapped for its effect on flower size-positively affects survival if combined with one ge ...[more]