Quantifying the slightly deleterious mutation model of molecular evolution

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2142-2149

  Eyre Walker, Adam ^a   Keightley, Peter D ^a,b   Smith, Nick G C ^a,c   Gaffney, Daniel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Effective population size; Nearly neutral mutations; Neutral theory; Slightly deleterious mutations

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION SIZE; RAT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; MUTATION; POPULATION DENSITY;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; POPULATION DENSITY;

EID: 0036900082     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a004039     Document Type: Article

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