Towards a theory of evolutionary adaptation

Genetica

Volumn 102-103, Issue , 1998, Pages 525-533

  Hard, Daniel L ^a   Taubes, Clifford H ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Mutation selection drift; Nearly neutral mutations

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; GENETIC MODEL; POPULATION GENETICS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 7344229253     PISSN: 00166707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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