The evolution of epistasis and its links with genetic robustness, complexity and drift in a phenotypic model of adaptation

Genetics

Volumn 182, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 277-293

  Gros, Pierre Alexis ^a   Nagard, Hervé Le ^a   Tenaillon, Olivier ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENETIC SELECTION; MODEL; ORGANISM; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ADAPTATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; POPULATION GENETICS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 67849092403     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.108.099127     Document Type: Article

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