An experimental test for synergistic epistasis and its application in Chlamydomonas

Genetics

Volumn 145, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 815-819

  De Visser, J A G M ^a,c   Hoekstra, Rolf F ^b   Van Ende, Herman Den ^b   De Visser, Arjan ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGA; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDOMONAS; EPISTASIS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SELECTION; MATING TYPE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALS; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CROSSES, GENETIC; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; MUTATION;

ALGAE; CHLAMYDOMONAS;

EID: 0031020691     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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