Associative overdominance, heterozygosity and fitness

Heredity

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 381-389

  Pamilo, Pekka ^a   Paælsson, Snaebjörn ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Associative overdominance; Background selection; Deleterious mutations; Heterozygosity; Linkage

Indexed keywords

FITNESS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HETEROZYGOSITY;

DOMINANCE; FITNESS; HETEROZYGOSITY; POLYMORPHISM; POPULATION GENETICS;

EID: 3643115617     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.hdy.6883950     Document Type: Article

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