Distinguishing the effects of mutational biases natural selection on DNA sequence variation

Genetics

Volumn 147, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1989-1991

  Akashi, Hiroshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MUTATION; NOTE; STATISTICS;

DNA; MUTATION; SELECTION (GENETICS); STATISTICS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0031303812     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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