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What does epistatic mean?

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  1. (genetics) Of or pertaining to epistasis, the interaction between genes.
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Epistatic interactions between genetic loci are represented by links between the strings by which those loci pull on the surface.
Such sites may be indicative of hotspots of recombination or mutation or epistatic selection.
Epistatic gene, in genetics, a gene that determines whether or not a trait will be expressed.
Thus, neither allele is epistatic to the other in permitting the occurrence of expansions or contractions.
This study shows that most hybrid incompatibilities are recessive and epistatic.
The results suggested that a minimum of two genes with epistatic effects were involved in the genetic control of cleistogamy.

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