Apparent Stabilizing Selection and the Maintenance of Neutral Genetic Variation

Genetics

Volumn 143, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 617-619

  Wagner, Günter P ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LETTER; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SELECTION (GENETICS); VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0030147349     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/genetics/143.1.617     Document Type: Letter

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