Epistasis and an oligogenic architecture underlie the strength of a plant-herbivore interaction
Cintia Beatriz Pérez López, Frédérique White, Nanouk Abonnenc, Sandrine L'Anglais-Landry, Érika Milot, A. Andrew M. MacDonald, Pierre‐Étienne Jacques, Yasuhiro Sato, Matthew A. Barbour
The paper examines how genomic variation in Arabidopsis thaliana affects interaction strength with aphids, finding epistasis among defense genes and an oligogenic architecture.
bioRxiv · Sep 17, 2026 · PreprintEcology