Survivability is more fundamental than evolvability

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Palmer, Michael E ^a   Feldman, Marcus W ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL SURVIVAL; COMPUTER MODEL; GENE MAPPING; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HERITABILITY; IN VIVO STUDY; LIFESTYLE; MEASUREMENT; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; REPRODUCTION; SURVIVAL TIME;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC FITNESS; GENOTYPE; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DENSITY;

EID: 84862501818     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038025     Document Type: Article

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