Some evolutionary consequences of deleterious mutations

Genetica

Volumn 102-103, Issue , 1998, Pages 3-19

  Charleswortli, Brian ^a,b   Charlesworth, Deborah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Flowering plants; Genetic recombination; Mutation rate; Selection; Self fertilization; Y chromosomes

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CROSS BREEDING; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETICS; HETEROSIS; INBREEDING; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PLANT; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CROSSES, GENETIC; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HYBRID VIGOR; INBREEDING; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PLANTS; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYOPHYTA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 7344230525     PISSN: 00166707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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