Mutator dynamics in fluctuating environments

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 269, Issue 1491, 2002, Pages 591-597

  Travis, J M J ^a   Travis, E R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Drug resistance; Evolution; Mutation; Natural selection; Simulation

Indexed keywords

PESTICIDE;

ADAPTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; MUTATION;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; GENE MUTATION; MODEL; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALLELES; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTAGENESIS; SELECTION (GENETICS); TIME FACTORS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 41049095398     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2001.1902     Document Type: Article

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