Applying ecological models to communities of genetic elements: The case of neutral theory

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 13, 2015, Pages 3232-3242

  Linquist, Stefan ^a   Cottenie, Karl ^a   Elliott, Tyler A ^a   Saylor, Brent ^a   Kremer, Stefan C ^a   Gregory, T Ryan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

ecological neutral theory; genome ecology; molecular neutral theory; mutation hazard model; transposon ecology

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOLOGY; GENOMICS; MUTATION; PROCEDURES;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; GENOMICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION;

EID: 84933279731     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mec.13219     Document Type: Review

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