The fixation probability of rare mutators in finite asexual populations

Genetics

Volumn 181, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1595-1612

  Scott Wylie, C ^a   Ghim, Cheol Min ^b   Kessler, David ^c   Levine, Herbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; COMPETITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DRIFT; MUTATION RATE; POPULATION; POPULATION SIZE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; STOCHASTIC MODEL; WILD TYPE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVALUATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION GENETICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS, POPULATION; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PROBABILITY; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL; SELECTION (GENETICS); SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 67650314825     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.108.094532     Document Type: Article

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