Measurements of spontaneous rates of mutations in the recent past and the near future

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 365, Issue 1544, 2010, Pages 1169-1176

  Kondrashov, Fyodor A ^a   Kondrashov, Alexey S ^b  

^a Barcelona Biomedical Research Park   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Estimating mutation rate; Mutation; Mutation accumulation; Sequencing

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION; DNA; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; GENERATION TIME; GENOME; MUTATION; POPULATION ESTIMATION;

EID: 77951526991     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2009.0286     Document Type: Review

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