The traveling-wave approach to asexual evolution: Muller's ratchet and speed of adaptation

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 24-46

  Rouzine, Igor M ^a   Brunet, Éric ^b   Wilke, Claus O ^c  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Asexual; Evolution; Fitness; Multi locus; Semi deterministic; Solitary; Stochastic; Traveling wave

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; EVOLUTION; FITNESS; GENOTYPE; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 37848998555     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2007.10.004     Document Type: Article

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