Selection on a modifier of recombination rate due to linked deleterious mutations

Journal of Heredity

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 22-26

  Pálsson, Snæbjörn ^a,b  

^a Department of Conservation Biology and Genetics ^*  (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIPLOIDY; DOMINANT INHERITANCE; EPISTASIS; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOIDY; MODIFIER GENE; MUTATION RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECESSIVE INHERITANCE;

EID: 0036257313     PISSN: 00221503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/93.1.22     Document Type: Article

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