Beneficial mutations, hitchhiking and the evolution of mutation rates in sexual populations

Genetics

Volumn 151, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1621-1631

  Johnson, Toby ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE T4; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC SELECTION; GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; REPRODUCTION; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 0032893933     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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