Epistasis can lead to fragmented neutral spaces and contingency in evolution

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1734, 2012, Pages 1777-1783

  Schaper, Steffen ^a   Johnston, Iain G ^a   Louis, Ard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Epistasis; Evolvability; Molecular evolution; Neutral evolution; Neutral networks; Robustness

Indexed keywords

COMPENSATION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EPISTASIS; FRAGMENTATION; GENOME; HETEROGENEITY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; RNA;

EID: 84858778369     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.2183     Document Type: Article

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