Escape from evolutionary stasis by transposon-mediated deleterious mutations

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 186, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 441-447

  McFadden, Johnjoe ^a   Knowles, Greg ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b Weeks Computing Services   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY STASIS; MUTATION; TRANSPOSON;

ADAPTATION; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TRANSPOSON;

ARCHAEA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0031582491     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jtbi.1997.0403     Document Type: Article

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