Testing for epistasis between deleterious mutations

Genetics

Volumn 149, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 435-444

  West, S A ^a   Peters, A D ^b   Barton, N H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHLAMYDOMONAS; DIPLOIDY; EPISTASIS; HAPLOIDY; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY;

CHLAMYDOMONAS;

EID: 0031833592     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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