Theoretical models of selection and mutation on quantitative traits

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 360, Issue 1459, 2005, Pages 1411-1425

  Johnson, Toby ^a,b   Barton, Nick ^b  

^a ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mutation; Mutation selection balance; Pleiotropy; Polygenic variation; Quantitative genetics

Indexed keywords

GENETIC VARIATION;

EID: 31344442812     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2005.1667     Document Type: Review

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