Effects of epistasis and the evolution of genetic architecture: Exact results for a 2-locus model

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 75, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 109-122

  Álvarez Castro, José M ^a   Kopp, Michael ^b   Hermisson, Joachim ^b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Canalization; Epistasis; Genetic architecture; Genetic variance; Mutation selection model

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANALYTICAL METHOD; CANALIZATION (BIOLOGY); EPISTASIS; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FLOW; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIATION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; SELECTION;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION; GENETIC EPISTASIS; STATISTICS;

ALLELES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION; MODELS, GENETIC; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 64549123454     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2008.12.003     Document Type: Article

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