Multilocus evolution in fire ants: Effects of selection, gene flow and recombination

Genetics

Volumn 145, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 961-974

  Ross, Kenneth G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ANT; ARTICLE; FEMALE FERTILITY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ANTS; ARGENTINA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; INSECT PROTEINS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); PHOSPHOGLUCOMUTASE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS); SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; FORMICIDAE; SOLENOPSIS GEMINATA; SOLENOPSIS INVICTA;

EID: 0030932951     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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