Transposable elements, mutational correlations, and population divergence in Caenorhabditis elegans

Evolution

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1062-1070

  Bégin, Mattieu ^a   Schoen, Daniel J ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Evolutionary quantitative genetics; Flury hierarchy; Jackknife MANOVA method; Transposons; Variance covariance matrix

Indexed keywords

DIVERGENCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FITNESS; HERITABILITY; MUTATION; NATURAL SELECTION; NEMATODE; PHENOTYPE; RNA; TRADE-OFF; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EVOLUTION; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 34247898965     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00097.x     Document Type: Article

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