The rate at which asexual populations cross fitness valleys

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 286-300

  Weissman, Daniel B ^a   Desai, Michael M ^b   Fisher, Daniel S ^a   Feldman, Marcus W ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive evolution; Fitness valleys; Sign epistasis

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; EPISTASIS; EVOLUTION; FITNESS; MUTATION;

ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; GENOTYPE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

GENOTYPE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL;

EID: 67349200668     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2009.02.006     Document Type: Article

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