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Measures of the efficiency of natural selection during gene substitution

H Allen Orr1

  • 1Department of Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA.

Journal of Theoretical Biology
|May 19, 2019
PubMed

Keywords:
Cost of selectionEfficiencyNatural selection

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