Variable mutation rates as an adaptive strategy in replicator populations

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Stich, Michael ^a   Manrubia, Susanna C ^a   Lázaro, Ester ^a  

^a CENTRO DE ASTROBIOLOGÍA CSIC INTA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RNA SEQUENCE; SIMULATION; ADAPTATION; ALGORITHM; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; EVOLUTION; MUTATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALGORITHMS; EVOLUTION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MUTATION; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL;

EID: 77956205470     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011186     Document Type: Article

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