Maintaining heritable variation via sex-limited temporally fluctuating selection: A phenotypic model accommodating non-Mendelian epigenetic effects

Theory in Biosciences

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 321-338

  Gorelick, Root ^a   Bertram, Susan M ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Genomic imprinting; Methylation; Shannon Weaver index; Storage effect

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EPIGENETICS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME IMPRINTING; HEREDITY; HUMAN; METHYLATION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0345829099     PISSN: 14317613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1078/1431-7613-00092     Document Type: Article

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