The faster-X effect: Integrating theory and data

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 537-544

  Meisel, Richard P ^a   Connallon, Tim ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Dominance; Genetics of adaptation; Natural selection; X chromosome

Indexed keywords

AUTOSOME; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION RATE; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REVIEW; SELECTIVE SWEEP; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 84882667670     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2013.05.009     Document Type: Review

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