Evolution of the mutation rate

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 345-352

  Lynch, Michael ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA REPAIR; DNA VIRUS; EUKARYOTE; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION RATE; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; RNA TRANSLATION; RNA VIRUS; SOMATIC MUTATION;

ANIMALS; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MUTATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 77955090647     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2010.05.003     Document Type: Article

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