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The genetic effects of growth rate in chicken domestication
More than a century after the foundation of genetics as a scientific field, researchers are still developing a general theory for how genes can control traits. Recent advances in the conceptualization and formalization of this theory have provided new insights into the estimation of genetic effects and the genetics of evolutionary processes. This image illustrates the use of chicken growth rate to analyze the genetics of domestication (see Álvarez-Castro et al., doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1000062).
Image Credit: Ernesto González Torterolo and Ignacio Castro (Náchok)
Citation: (2008) PLoS Genetics Issue Image | Vol. 4(5) May 2008. PLoS Genet 4(5): ev04.i05. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pgen.v04.i05
Published: May 30, 2008
Copyright: © 2008 Torterolo, Castro. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
More than a century after the foundation of genetics as a scientific field, researchers are still developing a general theory for how genes can control traits. Recent advances in the conceptualization and formalization of this theory have provided new insights into the estimation of genetic effects and the genetics of evolutionary processes. This image illustrates the use of chicken growth rate to analyze the genetics of domestication (see Álvarez-Castro et al., doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1000062).
Image Credit: Ernesto González Torterolo and Ignacio Castro (Náchok)