Environmental change exposes beneficial epistatic interactions in a catalytic RNA

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1742, 2012, Pages 3418-3425

  Hayden, Eric J ^a,b,c   Wagner, Andreas ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

^c Stanford University   (United States)

^d SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental change; Epistasis; Fitness landscape; Ribozymes

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EPISTASIS; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FITNESS; GENOTYPE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; MUTATION; NATURAL SELECTION; RNA;

AZOARCUS;

EID: 84864330756     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.0956     Document Type: Article

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