Budding yeast as a model organism for population genetics.

doi:10.1002/1097-0061(20000615)16:8<773::AID-YEA599>3.0.CO;2-1

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Budding yeast as a model organism for population genetics.

Yeast (Chichester, England) - 15 Jun 2000

Zeyl C

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Population genetics is a highly theoretical field in which many models and theories of broad significance have received little experimental testing. Microbes are well-suited for empirical population genetics since populations of almost any size may be studied genetically, and because many have ea...

Topics

Adaptation, Biological
Evolution, Molecular
Genetic Variation
Genetics, Population
Models, Genetic
Mutation
Quantitative Trait, Heritable
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Selection, Genetic

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