Powerful detection of polygenic selection and evidence of environmental adaptation in US beef cattle.
Selection on complex traits can rapidly drive evolution, especially in stressful environments. This polygenic selection does not leave intense sweep signatures on the genome, rather many loci experience small allele frequency shifts, resulting in large cumulative phenotypic changes. Directional sele...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2021-07-01
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Series: | PLoS Genetics |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1009652 |