Effects of population size and mutation rate on the evolution of mutational robustness

Evolution

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 666-674

  Elena, Santiago F ^a   Wilke, Claus O ^b   Ofria, Charles ^c   Lenski, Richard E ^d  

^a Ciudad Politécnica de la Innovación   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c Michigan State University   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Deleterious mutations; Digital organisms; Fitness landscapes; Mutational robustness; Neutral networks; Population size

Indexed keywords

EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE; EVOLUTION; FITNESS; GENOME; GENOTYPE; MUTATION; NATURAL SELECTION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENOME; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; POPULATION DENSITY;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; GENOTYPE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; POPULATION DENSITY; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 34247479590     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00064.x     Document Type: Article

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