Recombinant inbred systems can advance research in behavioural ecology

Recombinant inbred (RI) systems such as the BXD mouse family represent a population with defined genetic architecture and variation that approximates those of natural populations. With the development of novel RI lines and sophisticated methods that conjointly analyze phenotype, gene sequence and ex...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Beatrice eGini, Reinmar eHager
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Genetics
Subjects:
QTL
BXD
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fgene.2012.00198/full