Mutation accumulation may be a minor force in shaping life history traits

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Dańko, Maciej Jan ^a   Kozłowski, Jan ^b   Vaupel, James Walton ^a   Baudisch, Annette ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MATURITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; ONSET AGE; ADAPTATION; AGING; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOUSE; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AGING; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GENETIC LOCI; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84859517578     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0034146     Document Type: Article

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