The age of nonsynonymous and synonymous mutations in animal mtDNA and implications for the mildly deleterious theory

Genetics

Volumn 153, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 497-506

  Nielsen, Rasmus ^a   Weinreich, Daniel M ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEGREGATION; HYPOTHESIS; NATURAL SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; HAPLOTYPES; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS); STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032867365     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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