Automated Phenotyping Indicates Pupal Size in Drosophila Is a Highly Heritable Trait with an Apparent Polygenic Basis

The intense focus on studying human height has done more than any other genetic analysis to advance our understanding of the heritability of highly complex phenotypes. Here, we describe in detail the properties of a previously unexplored trait in Drosophila melanogaster that shares many salient prop...

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Main Authors: R. Guy Reeves, Diethard Tautz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2017-04-01
Series:G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics
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Online Access:http://g3journal.org/lookup/doi/10.1534/g3.117.039883