Recombination and hitchhiking of deleterious alleles

Evolution

Volumn 65, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2421-2434

  Hartfield, Matthew ^a   Otto, Sarah P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Deleterious mutations; Diffusion equations; Genetic hitchhiking; Hill Robertson effects; Selective sweep

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; DIFFUSION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; HUMAN EVOLUTION; MUTATION; RECOMBINATION;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENOME; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; PROBABILITY;

ALLELES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PROBABILITY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 80052264437     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01311.x     Document Type: Article

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