Evolvability of an RNA virus is determined by its mutational neighbourhood

Nature

Volumn 406, Issue 6796, 2000, Pages 625-628

  Burch, Christina L ^a   Chao, Lin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MUTATION RATE; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA VIRUS; VIRUS MUTATION;

BACTERIOPHAGE PHI 6; DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION;

EID: 0034632830     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35020564     Document Type: Article

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