The anomalous effects of biased mutation revisited: Mean-optimum deviation and apparent directional selection under stabilizing selection

Genetics

Volumn 179, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 1135-1141

  Zhang, Xu Sheng ^a   Hill, William G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MUTATION; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETIC SELECTION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; MATHEMATICS; POPULATION GENETICS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT;

GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SELECTION (GENETICS); VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 49849093174     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.107.083428     Document Type: Article

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