The relation between the neutrality index for mitochondrial genes and the distribution of mutational effects on fitness

Evolution

Volumn 66, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2427-2438

  Betancourt, Andrea J ^a   Blanco Martin, Bernardo ^b   Charlesworth, Brian ^b  

^a Institut fur Populationsgenetik   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gamma distribution; Log normal distribution; Mitochondrial genome; Neutrality index; Population genetics

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CYTOCHROME B;

AMINO ACID; DATA SET; DIVERGENCE; EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE; FITNESS; GENE EXPRESSION; MAMMAL; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM; POPULATION GENETICS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHROMOSOME; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MAMMAL; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MUTATION; POPULATION DENSITY; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; CYTOCHROMES B; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETIC FITNESS; GENETIC VARIATION; MAMMALS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POPULATION DENSITY; SELECTION, GENETIC;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84864318972     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01628.x     Document Type: Article

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