Key message MAGIC populations present novel challenges and opportunities in crops due
to their complex pedigree structure. They offer great potential both for dissecting genomic …

Cotton genetic resources contain diverse economically important traits that can be used
widely in breeding approaches to create of high-yielding elite cultivars with superior fiber …

The problem of detecting minor quantitative trait loci (QTL) responsible for genetic variation
not explained by major QTL is of importance in the complete dissection of quantitative …

The development of ubiquitous polymorphic genetic markers that span the genome have
made it possible for quantitative and molecular geneticists to investigate what MD Edwards …

Motivation: R/qtl is free and powerful software for mapping and exploring quantitative trait
loci (QTL). R/qtl provides a fully comprehensive range of methods for a wide range of …

East African cichlid fishes represent one of the most striking examples of rapid and
convergent evolutionary radiation among vertebrates. Models of ecological speciation would …

Understanding how interactions among set of genes affect diverse phenotypes is having a
greater impact on biomedical research, agriculture and evolutionary biology. Mapping and …

Lander and Botstein introduced statistical methods for searching an entire genome for
quantitative trait loci (QTL) in experimental organisms, with emphasis on a backcross design …

Linkage analysis with molecular genetic markers is a very powerful tool in the biological
research of quantitative traits. The lack of an easy way to know what areas of the genome …

The interval mapping method is widely used for the genetic mapping of quantitative trait loci
(QTLs), though true resolution of quantitative variation into QTLs is hampered with this …