Should we expect substitution rate to depend on population size?

Genetics

Volumn 150, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 911-919

  Cherry, Joshua L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE MUTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MUTAGENESIS; POPULATION DENSITY; PROTEINS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0031711923     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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