Pleiotropy and the preservation of perfection

Science

Volumn 279, Issue 5354, 1998, Pages 1210-1213

  Waxman, David ^a   Peck, Joel R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SELECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PLEIOTROPY; PRESERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CODON; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PROBABILITY; PROTEINS; SELECTION (GENETICS); VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0032549157     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.279.5354.1210     Document Type: Article

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