Mutation rates: When the going gets tough, beneficial mutations get going

Heredity

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 359-360

  Betancourt, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DROSOPHILA; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENOME; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MUTATION; NOTE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION GENETICS; VIRUS GENOME;

ANIMALS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DROSOPHILA; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME; GENOME, VIRAL; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION;

EID: 34748817461     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: 13652540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.hdy.6801042     Document Type: Note

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