The role of epistasis in the increase in the additive genetic variance after population bottlenecks

Genetical Research

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 45-59

  Lopez Fanjul C ^a   Fernandez A ^b   Toro, M A ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b INIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; INBREEDING; NONHUMAN;

EID: 0038605500     PISSN: 00166723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016672398003619     Document Type: Article

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