Mutational meltdown in primary endosymbionts: Selection limits Muller's Ratchet

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Allen, Julie M ^a   Light, Jessica E ^a,d   Perotti, M Alejandra ^b   Braig, Henk R ^c   Reed, David L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSYMBIONT; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SELECTION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INSECT GENETICS; LOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES EXTINCTION; ANIMAL; BACTERIUM; GENETICS; HUMAN; INSECT; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HEXAPODA; PHTHIRAPTERA;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; INSECTS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; SELECTION (GENETICS); SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 63349098418     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004969     Document Type: Article

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