Pathways to extinction: Beyond the error threshold

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 365, Issue 1548, 2010, Pages 1943-1952

  Manrubia, Susanna C ^a   Domingo, Esteban ^a,b,c   Lázaro, Ester ^a  

^a CENTRO DE ASTROBIOLOGÍA CSIC INTA   (Spain)

^b CENTRO DE BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR SEVERO OCHOA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

Author keywords

Antiviral therapy; Complex phenotype; Genotype phenotype map; Mutagen; Quasispecies; Viral extinction

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUE; EXTINCTION; FITNESS; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION GROWTH; VIRUS;

EID: 77954333401     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0076     Document Type: Review

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