The evolution of genomic imprinting: Abortion and overshoot explain aberrations

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 129-148

  Iwasa, Yoh ^a   Mochizuki, Atsushi ^a   Takeda, Yasuhiko ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Abortion; Genetic conflict; Genomic imprinting; Mash2; Multivariate quantitative genetics; Overshoot; Parthenogenesis prevention; Uniparental disomy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000785240     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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