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RI strains can be exploited to expose gene-environment interactions and gene pleiotropy.
The primary objective of this study was to deduce which of two population genetic mechanisms, antagonistic pleiotropy and mutation accumulation, was more responsible for specialization (results were strongly in favor of antagonistic pleiotropy).
This relationship--known in genetics as "pleiotropy"--seems to be completely accidental, a quirk of evolution.
Generating, maintaining and storing 1,000 RI lines could be a well justified expense given the long-term utility of large RI sets in tackling otherwise intractable problems in functional genomics - gene pleiotropy, genetic correlations, epistasis and reaction-norm genetics - in a mammal.
Could there be a similar pleiotropy between madness and mathematics?