The effects of deleterious mutations on linked, neutral variation in small populations

Genetics

Volumn 153, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 475-483

  Pálsson, Snæbjörn ^a   Pamilo, Pekka ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MUTATION RATE; NATURAL SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALLELES; CHROMOSOMES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIPLOIDY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENES, DOMINANT; GENES, RECESSIVE; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOME; HETEROZYGOTE; KINETICS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS); VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 18744419943     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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