The effect of selective sweeps on the variance of the allele distribution of a linked multiallele locus: Hitchhiking of microsatellites

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 272-283

  Wiehe, Thomas ^a  

^a FRITZ LIPMANN INSTITUTE   (Germany)

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EID: 0032098302     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/tpbi.1997.1346     Document Type: Article

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