Mendel's accountant: A biologically realistic forward-time population genetics program

Scalable Computing

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 147-165

  Sanford, J ^a   Baumgardner, J ^b   Brewer, W ^c   Gibson, P ^d   Remine, W ^e  

^a New York State Agricultural Experiment Station   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Northwestern College   (United States)

Author keywords

Bottleneck; Endangered species; Environmental variance; Genetic load; Mutation; Population genetics; Selection; Simulation

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOMES; CONSERVATION; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

BOTTLENECK; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIANCE; MUTATION; POPULATION GENETICS; SELECTION; SIMULATION;

GENETIC ALGORITHMS;

EID: 54949149323     PISSN: 18951767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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