Nature of deleterious mutation load in Drosophila

Genetics

Volumn 144, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1993-1999

  Keightley, Peter D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; DROSOPHILA; GENE MUTATION; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION RATE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; GENETICS, POPULATION; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION;

EID: 0030469972     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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