The rate of beneficial mutations surfing on the wave of a range expansion

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Lehe, Rémi ^a,b   Hallatschek, Oskar ^c   Peliti, Luca ^a,d  

^a INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DYNAMICS AND SELF ORGANIZATION   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPANSION; LOCATION;

BRANCHING PROCESS; EXTINCTION PROBABILITY; GENE POOLS; GENETIC DRIFTS; INDIVIDUAL-BASED SIMULATIONS; MOVING FIELD; NOVEL MUTATIONS; PRECISE LOCATIONS; RANGE EXPANSION; SPATIAL LOCATION;

PROBABILITY;

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BULK DENSITY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENETIC DRIFT; GROWTH RATE; LINEAR SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NATURAL SELECTION; PROBABILITY; SPECIES INVASION; SUBSTITUTION REACTION; WAVEFORM;

EID: 84861180226     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002447     Document Type: Article

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