Genetic analysis of environmental variation

Genetics Research

Volumn 92, Issue 5-6, 2010, Pages 381-395

  Hill, William G ^a   Mulder, Han A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL SELECTION; DIRECTIONAL SELECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEGREGATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; NATURAL SELECTION; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; QUANTITATIVE GENETICS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

ANIMALS; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 79957468856     PISSN: 00166723     EISSN: 14695073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016672310000546     Document Type: Article

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