The mutational rate of Drosophila viability decline: Tinkering with old data

Genetical Research

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 99-105

  Garcia Dorado A ^a   Caballero, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 2; CHROMOSOME MUTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DROSOPHILA; HOMOZYGOSITY; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MATURITY; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHROMOSOME; CROSS BREEDING; FEMALE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MALE; MORTALITY; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION GENETICS; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

ARACHNIDA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; MELANOGASTER;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES; CROSSES, GENETIC; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MORTALITY; MUTATION; PROBABILITY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0036774430     PISSN: 00166723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016672302005797     Document Type: Article

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