Quasispecies

Encyclopedia of Virology

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 359-365

  Sanjuan R ^a  

^a Ciudad Politécnica de la Innovación   (Spain)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Adaptive landscape; Biological fitness; Darwinian selection; Epistasis; Error catastrophe; Error threshold; Genetic drift; Lethal mutagenesis; Mutation; Population genetics; Robustness; Tradeoff; Transmission bottleneck; Variability

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951690526     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-012374410-4.00481-7     Document Type: Chapter

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