Mutant alleles of small effect are primarily responsible for the loss of fitness with slow inbreeding in Drosophila melanogaster

Genetics

Volumn 148, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 1143-1158

  Latter, B D H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEGREGATION; GENETIC MODEL; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; INBREEDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALLELES; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENES, DOMINANT; GENES, RECESSIVE; GENETIC MARKERS; INBREEDING; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTAGENESIS;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0031981501     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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