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A model of functional epistasis and linkage disequilibrium in populations with overlapping generations.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Giesel, James T. |
| Copyright Year | 1977 |
| Abstract | A model of functional epistasis is proposed in which it is assumed that coupling and repulsion genotypes differ in metabolic efficiency and thus in development time and net fecundity. The implications of this model are investigated for iteroparous populations with fluctuating rates of increase. It is found that the fluctuations in rate of increase can lead to large fluctuations in gamete frequency and D, the coefficient of linkage disequilibrium, but that D will almost always have a value of zero at some point during the populations' demographic cycle. Some of the model populations would be expected to be in a state of linkage disequilibrium only fleetingly: others would exhibit D-cycles interpretable as random fluctuation. Implications of the model for interpretations of existing data on linkage disequilibrium among enzyme loci in Drosophila are discussed. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| PubMed reference number | 892428 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 86 |
| Issue Number | 3 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.genetics.org/content/genetics/86/3/679.full.pdf |
| Journal | Genetics |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
