Simulated population fitness under different levels of pleiotropy, i.e. the number of phenotypes controlled by a single QTL (horizontal axis).
Tuomas Hämälä
Amanda J. Gorton
David A. Moeller
Peter Tiffin
10.1371/journal.pgen.1008707.g005
https://plos.figshare.com/articles/figure/Simulated_population_fitness_under_different_levels_of_pleiotropy_i_e_the_number_of_phenotypes_controlled_by_a_single_QTL_horizontal_axis_/12032055
<p>Phenotypes start from an initial value 0 and selection acts to move them towards three different optima. Shown are medians and interquartile ranges (IQR) from 300 simulation. The fitness estimates were normalized in relation to the non-pleiotropic class (median = 0, IQR = 1).</p>
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