Selection at linked sites in the partial selfer Caenorhabditis elegans

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 665-673

  Cutter, Asher D ^a   Payseur, Bret A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Background selection; Caenorhabditis elegans; Evolutionary genomics; Genetic hitchhiking; Nucleotide polymorphism; Recombination rate; SNP

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMOSOME IDENTIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FERTILIZATION; GENETIC MODEL; GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; INBREEDING; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MODELS, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELECTION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS BRIGGSAE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA;

EID: 0038305577     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msg072     Document Type: Article

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