Coalescence times and the Meselson effect in asexual eukaryotes

Genetical Research

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 183-190

  Ceplitis, Alf ^a,b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; DNA SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTE; GENE MUTATION; GENEALOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; REPRODUCTION;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIPLOIDY; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETICS, POPULATION; MODELS, GENETIC; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 1842434336     PISSN: 00166723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016672303006487     Document Type: Article

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