The effect of neutral nonadditive gene action on the quantitative index of population divergence

Genetics

Volumn 164, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1627-1633

  López Fanjul, Carlos ^a   Fernández, Almudena ^b   Toro, Miguel A ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b INIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE GENETICS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENES; GENES, DOMINANT; GENES, RECESSIVE; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETICS, POPULATION; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, THEORETICAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SELECTION (GENETICS); TRIBOLIUM; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0041817554     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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