Mutational fitness effects in RNA and single-stranded DNA viruses: Common patterns revealed by site-directed mutagenesis studies

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 365, Issue 1548, 2010, Pages 1975-1982

  Sanjuán, Rafael ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b Centro Superior de Investigacion en Salud Publica CSISP   (Spain)

Author keywords

Evolution; Mutation; Robustness; Selection; Site directed mutagenesis; Virus

Indexed keywords

DNA; FITNESS; GENOME; MUTATION; RNA; VIRUS;

EID: 77954324311     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0063     Document Type: Review

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