Evolution of fitnesses and allele frequencies in a population with spatially heterogeneous selection pressures

Genetics

Volumn 177, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1743-1751

  Star, Bastiaan ^a   Stoffels, Rick J ^a   Spencer, Hamish G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE FLOW; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SELECTION; HETEROSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALLELES; EVOLUTION; GENE FLOW; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HETEROZYGOTE; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; SELECTION (GENETICS); VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 37249077388     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.107.079558     Document Type: Article

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