The molecular underpinnings of genetic phenomena

Heredity

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 6-12

  Lehman, N ^a  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Epistasis; Heritability; Pleiotropy; Ploidy; Recombination; RNA

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPISTASIS; EVOLUTION; HERITABILITY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MUTATION; PLEIOTROPY; PLOIDY; RECOMBINATION; RNA;

ANIMAL; DOMINANT GENE; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENETIC LOAD; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; PLOIDY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, DOMINANT; GENETIC LOAD; GENETIC VARIATION; MUTATION; PLOIDIES; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA;

EID: 37349008452     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: 13652540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.hdy.6801053     Document Type: Short Survey

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