Multivariate Phenotypic Divergence Due to the Fixation of Beneficial Mutations in Experimentally Evolved Lineages of a Filamentous Fungus

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Schoustra, Sijmen E ^a,b   Punzalan, David ^a,c   Dali, Rola ^a,d   Rundle, Howard D ^a   Kassen, Rees ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Canada)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; FUNGUS MUTATION; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PLEIOTROPY; POPULATION SIZE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EMERICELLA NIDULANS; FUNGI;

EID: 84869805102     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050305     Document Type: Article

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