Epistasis from functional dependence of fitness on underlying traits

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1745, 2012, Pages 4156-4164

  Chiu, Hsuan Chao ^a,d   Marx, Christopher J ^c   Segrè, Daniel ^a,b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Boston University   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Benefit cost model; Epistasis; Evolution; Modularity; Pleiotropy

Indexed keywords

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EPISTASIS; FITNESS; FUNCTIONAL CHANGE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MUTATION; PLEIOTROPY; ROOT SYSTEM; SYNERGISM;

EID: 84866124155     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.1449     Document Type: Article

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