Mutation-selection balance and the evolutionary advantage of sex and recombination

Genetics Research

Volumn 89, Issue 5-6, 2008, Pages 451-473

  Charlesworth, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CHROMOSOME NUMBER; EPISTASIS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC STABILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 55749102134     PISSN: 00166723     EISSN: 14695073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016672308009658     Document Type: Article

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