Genome complexity, robustness and genetic interactions in digital organisms

Nature

Volumn 400, Issue 6745, 1999, Pages 661-664

  Lenski, Richard E ^a   Ofria, Charles ^b   Collier, Travis C ^c   Adami, Christoph ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPLICATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION; GENOME; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; REPRODUCTION; SOFTWARE;

EID: 0033549752     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/23245     Document Type: Article

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