Overlapping messages and survivability

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 520-527

  Peleg, Ofer ^a   Kirzhner, Valery ^a   Trifonov, Edward ^a   Bolshoy, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Fitting landscape; Lethal mutation; Mutation rate; Survival

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CODON; COST; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; LETHAL MUTANT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION RATE; PHENOMENOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GENE; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOME, VIRAL; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 4644313330     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-004-2644-5     Document Type: Article

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