The genetic architecture underlying ecological adaptation in Atlantic herring is not consistent with the infinitesimal model
F. Han, M. Jamsandekar, M. E. Pettersson, L. Su, A. Fuentes-Pardo, B. W. Davis, D. Bekkevold, F. Berg, M. Casini, G. Dahle, E. D. Farrell, A. Folkvord, L. Andersson
The study identifies hundreds of loci associated with ecological adaptation in Atlantic herring, finding that allele frequency shifts at these loci contradict the infinitesimal model for complex traits.
bioRxiv · Jul 15, 2020Evolutionary Biology