Why we are not dead one hundred times over

Evolution

Volumn 67, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 3354-3361

  Charlesworth, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Genetic drift; Genetic load; Mutation; Purifying selection; Soft selection; Stabilizing selection

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; DIVERGENCE; FITNESS; GENETIC DRIFT; GENOME; MUTATION; NATURAL SELECTION; RECOMBINATION; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC LOAD; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PURIFYING SELECTION; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; SOFT SELECTION; STABILIZING SELECTION;

GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC LOAD; MUTATION; PURIFYING SELECTION; SOFT SELECTION; STABILIZING SELECTION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DROSOPHILA; GENETIC FITNESS; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTAGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84886298455     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/evo.12195     Document Type: Article

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