Kick-starting the ratchet: The fate of mutators in an asexual population

Genetics

Volumn 187, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1129-1137

  Jonas Soderberg R ^a   Berg, Otto G ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUTAGENIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; BUCHNERA APHIDICOLA; DEGRADATION; ENDOSYMBIONT; GENE MUTATION; GENOME; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SURVIVAL;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; ANTIMUTAGENIC AGENTS; APHIDS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BUCHNERA; GENETIC LOCI; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; SELECTION, GENETIC;

APHIDIDAE; BUCHNERA APHIDICOLA;

EID: 79955409877     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.110.124818     Document Type: Article

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