Evolution experiments with microorganisms: The dynamics and genetic bases of adaptation

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 457-469

  Elena, Santiago F ^a   Lenski, Richard E ^b  

^a Universitat Politècnica de València   (Spain)

^b Michigan State University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENOME; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VIRUS GENOME; YEAST;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; EVOLUTION; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETICS, MICROBIAL; MUTATION; VARIATION (GENETICS);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0038441327     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg1088     Document Type: Review

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