Environmental Effects on the Expression of Quantitative Trait Loci and Implications for Phenotypic Evolution

摘要: Abstract Organisms in natural populations experience environmental heterogeneity over a range of temporal and spatial scales, this has significant evolutionary implications. By affecting patterns selection the expression genetic variation, can play an important role determining dynamics phenotypic traits maintenance variation. Although mapping quantitative trait loci (the that underlie continuously varying traits) long history agricultural applied studies, technique only recently been to studies. This application made it possible identify specific underlying variation different environments, measure on those loci, test assumptions models regarding under environmentally heterogeneous selection. Here we review recent studies have...