The effects of spontaneous mutation on quantitative traits. II. Dominance of mutations with effects on life-history traits

Genetical Research

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 27-34

  Houle, David ^a,b   Hughes, Kimberly A ^a,c   Assimacopoulos, Stavroula ^a   Charlesworth, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY WEST   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; DOMINANT INHERITANCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENE SEGREGATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; MALE; MATING; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; SPONTANEOUS MUTATION;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENES, INSECT; LONGEVITY; MALE; MUTATION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0030715326     PISSN: 00166723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S001667239700284X     Document Type: Article

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