Testing for the accumulation of deleterious mutations in asexual eukaryote genomes using molecular sequences

Journal of Natural History

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1719-1729

  Normark, B B ^a   Moran, N A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUKARYOTIC CELL; MUTATION;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0033865490     PISSN: 00222933     EISSN: 14645262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00222930050122147     Document Type: Article

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