Dynamic mutation-selection balance as an evolutionary attractor

Genetics

Volumn 191, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1309-1319

  Goyal, Sidhartha ^a   Balick, Daniel J ^b   Jerison, Elizabeth R ^c   Neher, Richard A ^d   Shraiman, Boris I ^a,b   Desai, Michael M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DYNAMIC MUTATION SELECTION BALANCE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SELECTION; HUMAN; MUTATION RATE; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC FITNESS; GENETICS, POPULATION; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; MUTATION RATE; POPULATION DENSITY; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84865074474     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.112.141291     Document Type: Article

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