The population genetic theory of hidden variation and genetic robustness

Genetics

Volumn 168, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 2271-2284

  Hermisson, Joachim ^a   Wagner, Günter P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENT; EPISTASIS; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOCHASTIC MODEL; WILD TYPE;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ENVIRONMENT; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GENETICS, POPULATION; MODELS, GENETIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 11244329008     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.104.029173     Document Type: Article

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