Mutation-Selection Balance: Ancestry, Load, and Maximum Principle

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 9-46

  Hermisson, Joachim ^a   Redner, Oliver ^b   Wagner, Holger ^c   Baake, Ellen ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^c BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Backward processes; Branching process; Clonal reproduction; Epistasis; Error threshold; Mutation load; Mutation selection model; Mutational robustness; Statistical physics

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; MUTATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENETIC LOAD; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; MUTATION; PHYSICS; POPULATION GENETICS; STATISTICS;

ANIMALS; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC LOAD; GENETICS, POPULATION; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PHYSICS; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 0036691639     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/tpbi.2002.1582     Document Type: Article

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