Heterozygote advantage and the maintenance of polymorphism for multilocus traits

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 157-166

  Ding, Alexandre ^a   Goudet, Jérôme ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Balancing selection; Gametic frequency; Genetic variation; Heterozygote advantage; Multilocus trait

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; GENETIC VARIATION; POLYMORPHISM; SELECTION;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOTE;

ALLELES; HETEROZYGOTE; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 26244434316     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2005.06.002     Document Type: Article

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