GENE CONVERSION: A HITHERTO OVERLOOKED PARAMETER IN POPULATION GENETICS
- 1 August 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Genetics
- Vol. 83 (4) , 861-866
- https://doi.org/10.1093/genetics/83.4.861
Abstract
Gene conversion causes deviations from the 2:2 segregation of allele pairs in meiosis. Thus, gene conversion is a potential cause for changes of allele frequencies in populations. Equations are derived for the effects of conversion in a large random-mating population. The influence of gene conversion on allele frequencies is compared with that of spontaneous mutation and meiotic drive.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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