Recombination Can Evolve in Large Finite Populations Given Selection on Sufficient Loci

Genetics

Volumn 165, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 2249-2258

  Iles, Mark M ^a   Walters, Kevin ^a,b   Cannings, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EPISTASIS; EXPERIMENT; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SELECTION; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VARIANCE;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; POPULATION DENSITY; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 0347991992     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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