Changing effective population size and the McDonald-Kreitman test

Genetics

Volumn 162, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 2017-2024

  Eyre Walker, Adam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CODON USAGE; EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE; EVOLUTION; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BIOMETRY; CODON; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETICS, POPULATION; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; POPULATION DENSITY; SELECTION (GENETICS); VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0036961560     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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