Evolutionary genetics: Sexually selected mutation rates

Heredity

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 185-186

  Cotton, S ^a   Pomiankowski, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; NOTE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; MALE; MUTATION; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEX CHARACTERISTICS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 33947644208     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: 13652540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.hdy.6800943     Document Type: Note

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