Directional Selection Causes Decanalization in a Group I Ribozyme

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

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

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

^d SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOZYME;

ARTICLE; AZOARCUS; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECANALIZATION; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THERMODYNAMICS; WILD TYPE;

AZOARCUS; GENOTYPE; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; RNA, CATALYTIC; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84866494388     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045351     Document Type: Article

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