Multivariate stabilizing selection and pleiotropy in the maintenance of quantitative genetic variation

Evolution

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1761-1775

  Zhang, Xu Sheng ^a   Hill, William G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diffusion approximation; Distribution of mutational effects; Genetic variation; Mutation; Rare allele

Indexed keywords

GENETIC VARIATION; MUTATION; SELECTION;

EID: 0043286740     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2003.tb00584.x     Document Type: Article

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