'Social heterosis' as a process that maintains genetic variation - A comment

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 625-630

  Santos, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Genetic diversity; Genetic hitchhiking; Group selection; Linkage disequilibrium; Social heterosis

Indexed keywords

FITNESS; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; GROUP SELECTION; HETEROSIS; MATING BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTION;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY;

ALLELES; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MODELS, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS); VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 38849200535     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: 14209101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2007.01484.x     Document Type: Article

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