Natural variation in Drosophila shows weak pleiotropic effects

Abstract Background Pleiotropy describes the phenomenon in which a gene affects multiple phenotypes. The extent of pleiotropy is still disputed, mainly because of issues of inadequate power of analyses. A further challenge is that empirical tests of pleiotropy are restricted to a small subset of all...

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Main Authors: Eirini Christodoulaki, Viola Nolte, Wei-Yun Lai, Christian Schlötterer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2022-05-01
Series:Genome Biology
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-022-02680-4