Evolution of recombination due to random drift

Genetics

Volumn 169, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 2353-2370

  Barton, N H ^a   Otto, Sarah P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; FITNESS; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC DRIFT; GENOME; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 18844399355     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.104.032821     Document Type: Article

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