Adaptive evolution of asexual populations under Muller's ratchet

Evolution

Volumn 58, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1403-1413

  Bachtrog, Doris ^a   Gordo, Isabel ^b  

^a Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

^b Facultade de Medicina de Lisboa   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Background selection; Genetic hitchhiking; Muller's ratchet; Rate of adaptation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; EVOLUTION; MUTATION;

EID: 3543125439     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2004.tb01722.x     Document Type: Article

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