The genetic analysis of age-dependent traits: Modeling the character process

Genetics

Volumn 153, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 825-835

  Pletcher, Scott D ^a,c   Geyer, Charles J ^b  

^a Department of Ecology Evolution and Behavior ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SPONTANEOUS MUTATION;

AGING; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GROWTH; LONGEVITY; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MUTATION; PROBABILITY;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0032840463     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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