Fluctuating environments and the role of mutation in maintaining quantitative genetic variation

Genetical Research

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 31-46

  Bürger, Reinhard ^a   Gimelfarb, Alexander ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC PARAMETERS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; POPULATION GENETICS; QUANTITATIVE GENETICS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0036694885     PISSN: 00166723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016672302005682     Document Type: Article

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