Recombination and the evolution of mutational robustness

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 241, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 707-715

  Gardner, Andy ^a,b   Kalinka, Alex T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canalization; Epistasis; Linkage disequilibrium; Multilocus methodology; Mutation selection balance

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; INBREEDING; MUTATION; PERTURBATION; PHENOTYPE; RECOMBINATION;

ARTICLE; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC SELECTION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ANIMALS; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; INBREEDING; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 33746099256     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2006.01.011     Document Type: Article

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