From bad to good: Fitness reversals and the ascent of deleterious mutations

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1292-1300

  Cowperthwaite, Matthew C ^a   Bull, J J ^a   Meyers, Lauren Ancel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH; NUCLEIC ACIDS;

EVOLUTIONARY PROGRESS; FIXATION RATES; MUTATION ACCUMULATIONS; MUTATION RATES; POPULATION GENETIC MODELS; POPULATION SIZES; RNA MOLECULES; SIMULATION MODEL;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

ARTICLE; FITNESS; GENOME; MUTATION RATE; POPULATION SIZE; RNA REPLICATION; SIMULATION; ADAPTATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; PROBABILITY;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOTYPE; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PROBABILITY; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 33750485329     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.0020141     Document Type: Article

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