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The heat-shock response and the molecular basis of genetic dominance.
Journal of theoretical biology - 7 Mar 1994
Forsdyke D R
Abstract excerpt
Wild-type alleles are usually dominant over deleterious mutant alleles. For a particular pair of such alleles possible populations include a wild-type homozygote population, a heterozygote population, and a mutant homozygote population. Fisher's theory that dominance would evolve by selection acting on the heterozygote subpopulation has lost ground in favour of the "dose-response" theory under which dominance is...
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