Role of mutator alleles in adaptive evolution

Nature

Volumn 387, Issue 6634, 1997, Pages 700-702

  Taddei, F ^a,d   Radman, M ^a   Maynard Smith, J ^b   Toupance, B ^c   Gouyon, P H ^c   Godelle, B ^c,d  

^a INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^d AGROPARISTECH   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CLONAL ANERGY; EVOLUTION; GENE MUTATION; MUTATOR GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALLELES; ANIMALS; DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MAMMALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; SELECTION (GENETICS);

ADAPTIVE EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION; MUTATION RATE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0030620272     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/42696     Document Type: Article

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