Clarifying the relationship between average excesses and average effects of allele substitutions

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue MAR, 2012, Pages

  Álvarez Castro, José M ^a   Yang, Rong Cai ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b ALBERTA AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Average effects; Average excesses; Effective gene content; Models of genetic effects; Non equilibrium populations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876045571     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2012.00030     Document Type: Article

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