The evolution of mutator genes in bacterial populations: The roles of environmental change and timing

Genetics

Volumn 164, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 843-854

  Tanaka, Mark M ^a,c   Bergstrom, Carl T ^b   Levin, Bruce R ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOLUTION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; TIME;

BACTERIA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0042242609     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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