The influence of hitchhiking and deleterious mutation upon asexual mutation rates

Genetics

Volumn 173, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 461-472

  Palmer, Michael E ^a,b   Lipsitch, Marc ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MUTATION RATE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

MODELS, GENETIC; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 33744457985     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.105.049445     Document Type: Article

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