Model and test in a fungus of the probability that beneficial mutations survive drift

Biology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Gifford, Danna R ^a   De Visser, J Arjan G M ^b   Wahl, Lindi M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptive evolution; Beneficial mutations; Probability of fixation; Selection

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FUNGUS; MUTATION; PROBABILITY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EMERICELLA NIDULANS; FUNGI;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FUNGUS SPORE; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MUTATION; PROBABILITY; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS;

ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC FITNESS; GENOTYPE; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PROBABILITY; SPORES, FUNGAL;

EID: 84872019333     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2012.0310     Document Type: Article

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