Balanced vs. slightly unbalanced selection

Heredity

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 685-691

  Rodríguez, Leopoldo Sánchez ^a,b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gene retention; Gene dropping; Group coancestry; Inbreeding; Within family selection

Indexed keywords

GENETIC DIVERSITY; GENETIC SELECTION; HERITABILITY; SIMULATION;

GENETIC VARIATION; SELECTION;

FOUNDER EFFECT; MODELS, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS); VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 17544400502     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2540.2000.00715.x     Document Type: Article

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