Two steps forward, one step back: The pleiotropic effects of favoured alleles

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue 1540, 2004, Pages 705-714

  Otto, Sarah P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Distribution of selective effects; Fixation probability; Pleiotropy

Indexed keywords

PLEIOTROPY; POPULATION GENETICS;

ADAPTATION; ALLELE; ARTICLE; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC SELECTION; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 1842451461     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2635     Document Type: Article

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