Fitness recovery and compensatory evolution in natural mutant lines of C. elegans

Evolution

Volumn 65, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2335-2344

  Estes, Suzanne ^a   Phillips, Patrick C ^b   Denver, Dee R ^c  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Caenorhabditis; Epistasis; Experimental evolution; Mutation accumulation; Reversion

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CONSERVATION GENETICS; EPISTASIS; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FITNESS; GENOTYPE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MUTATION; NEMATODE; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION SIZE; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION GENETICS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MUTATION; SELECTION, GENETIC;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; NEMATODA;

EID: 79960845135     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01276.x     Document Type: Article

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