The evolutionary origin of complex features

Nature

Volumn 423, Issue 6936, 2003, Pages 139-144

  Lenski, Richard E ^a   Ofria, Charles ^b   Pennock, Robert T ^c   Adami, Christoph ^d  

^a Michigan State University ^*  (United States)

^b Michigan State University   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; GENES;

DIGITAL ORGANISMS;

BIODIVERSITY;

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOLUTION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; GENOME; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DENSITY; SELECTION (GENETICS); SOFTWARE;

EID: 0038668776     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01568     Document Type: Article

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