Population genetic perspectives on the evolution of recombination

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 30, Issue , 1996, Pages 261-295

  Feldman, Marcus W ^a   Otto, Sarah P ^b   Christiansen, Freddy B ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

epistasis; linkage disequilibrium; modifier theory; multiple loci; mutation selection balance; optimality theory

Indexed keywords

EPISTASIS; EVOLUTION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EVOLUTION; GENETICS, POPULATION; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 0030457013     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.30.1.261     Document Type: Review

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