Heterozygote advantage as a natural consequence of adaptation in diploids

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 51, 2011, Pages 20666-20671

  Sellis, Diamantis ^a   Callahan, Benjamin J ^a   Petrov, Dmitri A ^a   Messer, Philipp W ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BALANCING SELECTION; DIPLOIDY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FITNESS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOIDY; HETEROZYGOTE; HETEROZYGOTE ADVANTAGE; HOMOZYGOTE; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS MODEL;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALLELES; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; DIPLOIDY; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIATION; HAPLOIDY; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84855505144     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1114573108     Document Type: Article

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