Mutation and extinction: The role of variable mutational effects, synergistic epistasis, beneficial mutations, and degree of outcrossing

Evolution

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1363-1371

  Schultz, Stewart T ^a   Lynch, Michael ^b  

^a University of Miami   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Effective population size; Epistasis; Extinction; Genetic drift; Mutation; Outcrossing; Selfing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030830534     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1997.tb01459.x     Document Type: Article

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