Cryptic genetic variation: Evolution's hidden substrate

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 247-258

  Paaby, Annalise B ^a   Rockman, Matthew V ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84899452541     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg3688     Document Type: Review

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