A hitch-hiking guide to the genome: A commentary on 'The hitch-hiking effect of a favourable gene' by John Maynard Smith and John Haigh

Genetics Research

Volumn 89, Issue 5-6, 2008, Pages 389-390

  Charlesworth, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOENZYME; DNA;

ALLOENZYME VARIATION; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENE NUMBER; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONHUMAN; NOTE; POPULATION GENETICS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ANIMALS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME; HUMANS; ISOENZYMES; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 55749096092     PISSN: 00166723     EISSN: 14695073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016672308009580     Document Type: Note

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