Model dependency of error thresholds: The role of fitness functions and contrasts between the finite and infinite sites models

Genetical Research

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 127-136

  Wiehe, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EPISTASIS; ERROR; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC SELECTION; MUTATION RATE; POPULATION GENETICS;

EID: 0030789022     PISSN: 00166723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016672397002619     Document Type: Article

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