Temporal variation in selection accelerates mutational decay by Muller's ratchet

Genetics

Volumn 191, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 907-916

  Wardlaw, Alison M ^a   Agrawal, Aneil F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FITNESS; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENET (CLONE); GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MULLER RATCHET; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SELECTION, GENETIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84863876489     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.112.140962     Document Type: Article

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