The distribution of rates of spontaneous mutation over viruses, prokaryotes, and eukaryotes

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 870, Issue , 1999, Pages 100-107

  Drake, John W ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; VIRUS RNA;

CONFERENCE PAPER; EUKARYOTE; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; PROKARYOTE; RNA VIRUS; SPONTANEOUS MUTATION; VIRUS;

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 0032808947     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1999.tb08870.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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