Epistasis and its relationship to canalization in the RNA virus φ6

Genetics

Volumn 167, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 559-567

  Burch, Christina L ^a,c   Chao, Lin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CALCULATION; CANALIZATION; DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPISTASIS; EVOLUTION; FITNESS; GENOTYPE; MUTATION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA VIRUS; VIRUS MUTATION;

BACTERIOPHAGE PHI 6; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GENOTYPE; MUTATION; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; RNA VIRUSES; VIRUS REPLICATION;

RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 3142755598     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.103.021196     Document Type: Article

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