Background selection 20 years on

Journal of Heredity

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 161-171

  Charlesworth, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

background selection; genetic drift; Hill Robertson interference; mutations; natural selection

Indexed keywords

DNA;

AUTOSOME; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; GENOMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MUTATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84874361171     PISSN: 00221503     EISSN: 14657333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/ess136     Document Type: Review

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