As it happens: Current directions in experimental evolution

Biology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Bataillon, Thomas ^a   Joyce, Paul ^b   Sniegowski, Paul ^c  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Competition; Epistasis; Fitness; Social evolution

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECADAL VARIATION; EPISTASIS; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FITNESS; GENOME; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ADAPTATION; BACTERIUM; EDITORIAL; EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; MUTATION RATE; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VIRUS;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EUKARYOTA; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENETIC FITNESS; MUTATION RATE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VIRUSES;

EID: 84872028565     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2012.0945     Document Type: Article

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