The effect of variation in the effective population size on the rate of adaptive molecular evolution in eukaryotes

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 658-667

  Gossmann, Toni I ^a   Keightley, Peter D ^b   Eyre Walker, Adam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive evolution; Effective population size; Eukaryotes

Indexed keywords

EUKARYOTA;

ADAPTATION; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CODON; EUKARYOTE; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; PLANT; POPULATION DENSITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; CODON; EUKARYOTA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC DRIFT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MUTATION; PLANTS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POPULATION DENSITY; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84865426303     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evs027     Document Type: Article

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