The influence of horizontal gene transfer on the mean fitness of unicellular populations in static environments

Genetics

Volumn 185, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 327-337

  Raz, Yoav ^a   Tannenbaum, Emmanuel ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; CELL POPULATION; CELL SURVIVAL; GENE MUTATION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC FITNESS; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA;

BACTERIA; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; ENVIRONMENT; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENETIC FITNESS; MODELS, GENETIC;

EID: 77956625670     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.109.113613     Document Type: Article

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