Rates of spontaneous mutation

Genetics

Volumn 148, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1667-1686

  Drake, John W ^a   Charlesworth, Brian ^b   Charlesworth, Deborah ^b   Crow, James F ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HUMAN; MAIZE; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; RETROVIRUS; SEX; SPONTANEOUS MUTATION; VIRUS MUTATION;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MUTATION;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUKARYOTA; MELANOGASTER; RNA VIRUSES; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0031916242     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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