Adaptation from leaps in the dark

Journal of Heredity

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 7-10

  Woodruff, Ronny C ^a   Zhang, Mingcai ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Fixations; Mutation; Standing genetic variation

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; DARK ADAPTATION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GERM LINE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REVIEW;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ALLELES; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; MUTATION; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 58149087141     PISSN: 00221503     EISSN: 14657333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esn058     Document Type: Review

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