The effect of synergistic epistasis on the inbreeding load

Genetical Research

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 85-89

  Charlesworth, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL VIABILITY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EPISTASIS; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; INBREEDING; NONHUMAN;

ARACHNIDA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0031833355     PISSN: 00166723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016672398003140     Document Type: Article

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