Average time until fixation of mutants with compensatory fitness interaction

Genes and Genetic Systems

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 167-173

  Iizuka, Masaru ^a   Takefu, Masasuke ^b  

^a KYUSHU DENTAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC MODEL; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; QUANTITATIVE GENETICS;

EID: 0029805846     PISSN: 13417568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1266/ggs.71.167     Document Type: Article

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