Multigeneration maximum-likelihood analysis applied to mutation- accumulation experiments in Caenorhabditis elegans

Genetics

Volumn 154, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 1193-1201

  Keightley, Peter D ^a   Bataillon, Thomas M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MUTATION;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA;

EID: 0034092692     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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