Polygenicity And Epistasis Underlie Fitness-Proximal Traits In The Caenorhabditis elegans Multiparental Experimental Evolution (CeMEE) Panel
L. M. Noble, I. Chelo, T. Guzella, B. Afonso, D. D. Riccardi, P. Ammerman, A. Dayarian, S. Carvalho, A. Crist, A. Pino-Querido, B. Shraiman, M. V. Rockman, H. Teotonio
The paper uses the CeMEE panel to study the genetic basis of fertility and body size in C. elegans, finding that epistasis, not common additive alleles, explains significant trait variance.
bioRxiv · Mar 27, 2017Evolutionary Biology