The influence of deleterious mutations on adaptation in asexual populations

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Jiang, Xiaoqian ^a   Xu, Zhao ^a   Li, Jingjing ^b   Shi, Youyi ^a   Wu, Wenwu ^a   Tao, Shiheng ^a  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE MUTATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR CLONING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MULTIPLE MUTATION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION RESEARCH; SELECTION COEFFICIENTS OF THE FIXED MUTATION; STRONG SELECTION WEAK MUTATION; ADAPTATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MUTATION; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 81055124834     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0027757     Document Type: Article

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