Article
The evolution of dominance.
Heredity - 1 Jul 1999
Bourguet D
Abstract excerpt
The evolution of dominance has been subject to intensive debate since Fisher first argued that modifiers would be selected for if they made wild-type alleles more dominant over mutant alleles. An alternative explanation, put forward by Wright, is that the commonly observed dominance of wild-type alleles is simply a physiological consequence of metabolic pathways. Wright's explanation has gained support over the...
Topics
- Animals
- Evolution, Molecular
- Genes, Dominant
- Metabolism
- Mutation
- Polymorphism, Genetic
- Selection, Genetic