This period was followed by attempts in the early 1980s to integrate quantitative genetics into evolutionary biology, which had spill-over effects on other fields, such as behavioral ecology and ecophysiology.
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Russell Lande, 45, of Eugene, Ore ., a professor of biology at the University of Oregon whose work in quantitative genetics has influenced many areas of evolutionary biology, $ 280, 000.
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Their theories on the evolution of dominance had far-reaching implications for the fields of evolution, population and quantitative genetics, and biochemistry, and laid the early foundation of current understanding of human disease modifier genes.
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Although the potential of DH populations in quantitative genetics has been understood for some time, it was the advent of molecular marker maps that provided the impetus for their use in identifying loci controlling quantitative traits.
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In quantitative genetics, selection is usually examined in this " biometrical " fashion, but the changes in the means ( as monitored by ?G ) reflect the changes in allele and genotype frequencies beneath this surface.
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He was instrumental in promoting the use of the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana to study evolution, quantitative genetics and ecology, publishing some of the first studies of DNA sequence diversity and the genomic mapping of natural phenotype variation in this species.
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Due to the continuous distribution of phenotypic values, quantitative genetics must employ many other statistical methods ( such as the " effect size ", the " mean " and the " variance " ) to link phenotypes ( attributes ) to genotypes.
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His most important scientific achievement was the first quantitative genetic description of the species-inherent variability of mycorrhizal fungi inoculum and the development of a method to regulate the selection-dependent loss of efficacy during the course of fungal reproduction ( Directed Inoculum Production Process, DIPP ).
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In order to better quantify and test hypotheses about the inheritance of psychiatric disorders, he studied quantitative genetics with Theodore Reich in St . Louis and with Newton Morton and D . C . Rao of the Population Genetics Lab of the University of Hawaii.
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However, theoretical models that incorporate a complex genotype-phenotype map have found evidence for the evolution of phenotypic robustness contributing to genetic assimilation, even when selection is only for developmental stability and not for a particular phenotype, and so the quantitative genetics models do not apply.
