On the unit of selection in sexual populations

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3630 LNAI, Issue , 2005, Pages 895-905

  Watson, Richard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MUTAGENESIS; OPTIMIZATION;

CHROMOSOME; REPLICATING UNITS; SEXUAL POPULATIONS;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

EID: 33646015026     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11553090_90     Document Type: Conference Paper

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