An adaptive hypothesis for the evolution of the Y chromosome

Genetics

Volumn 150, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1693-1698

  Orr, H Allen ^a   Kim, Yuseob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ALLELE; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Y CHROMOSOME;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODELS, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS); Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0031731778     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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