Viral RNA and evolved mutational robustness

Journal of Experimental Zoology

Volumn 285, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 119-127

  Wagner, Andreas ^a,c   Stabler, Peter F ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RNA VIRUS; VIRUS GENOME;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENOME, VIRAL; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA VIRUSES; RNA, VIRAL;

ANIMALIA; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 0033567123     PISSN: 0022104X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-010X(19990815)285:2<119::AID-JEZ4>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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