Evolution of molecular error rates and the consequences for evolvability

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1082-1087

  Rajon, Etienne ^a   Masel, Joanna ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Chaperones; Robustness; Transcription; Translation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIMULATION; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; MODELS, GENETIC; POPULATION DENSITY; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 79551622326     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1012918108     Document Type: Article

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