Modelling bacterial speciation

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 361, Issue 1475, 2006, Pages 2039-2044

  Hanage, William P ^a   Spratt, Brian G ^a   Turner, Katherine M E ^a   Fraser, Christophe ^a  

^a ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fisher Wright model; Genetic cartography; Multilocus genotypes; Recombination; Simulation; Species

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; GENOTYPE; MODELING; MUTATION; RECOMBINATION; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 33751249041     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2006.1926     Document Type: Conference Paper

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