Adaptive mutation: Has the unicorn landed?

Genetics

Volumn 148, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1453-1459

  Foster, Patricia L ^a,b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ALLELE; ARTICLE; LACTOSE OPERON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; NATURAL SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; LAC OPERON; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; REC A RECOMBINASES; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 0031952871     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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