Complexity, pleiotropy, and the fitness effect of mutations

Evolution

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1559-1571

  Lourenço, João ^a   Galtier, Nicolas ^a   Glémin, Sylvain ^a  

^a UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

Drift load; Genetic drift; Models; Molecular evolution; Natural selection

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXITY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FITNESS; GENE FLOW; GENETIC DRIFT; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MUTATION; NATURAL SELECTION; PLEIOTROPY;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC SELECTION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; PLEIOTROPY; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC FITNESS; GENETIC PLEIOTROPY; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 79958074210     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01237.x     Document Type: Article

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