The balance between pleiotropic mutation and selection, when alleles have discrete effects

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 105-114

  Waxman, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asexual population; Mutation selection balance; Pleiotropy; Quantitative traits; Stabilising selection

Indexed keywords

ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; MUTATION; NATURAL SELECTION; PLEIOTROPY; POPULATION GENETICS;

ALLELE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETIC SELECTION; HAPLOIDY; MUTATION; POPULATION GENETICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; GENETICS, POPULATION; GREAT BRITAIN; HAPLOIDY; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 0038620463     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-5809(02)00036-9     Document Type: Article

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