Artificial selection experiments

Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1992, Pages 287-310

  Hill, William G ^a   Caballero, Armando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evolution; Genetic variation; Heritability; Mutation; Quantitative genetics

Indexed keywords

GENETICS; MUTATION; SELECTION;

EID: 0027010836     PISSN: 00664162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.es.23.110192.001443     Document Type: Article

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