Mutation and conflicts between artificial and natural selection for quantitative traits

Genetica

Volumn 102-103, Issue , 1998, Pages 171-181

  Hill, William G ^a   Mbaga, Said H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b SOKOINE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Mutation; Pleiotropy; Quantitative genetics; Selection; Variation

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; MUTATION; POPULATION GENETICS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT;

EID: 7344227926     PISSN: 00166707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1017081614251     Document Type: Article

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