What does sex have to do with it: Tracking the fate of deleterious mutations in sexual populations

Artificial Life 13: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, ALIFE 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 32-36

  Covert III, Arthur W ^a,b   Smith, Lane ^a,b   Derrberry, Dakota Z ^a,b   Wilke, Claus O ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b BEACON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE EVOLUTION; ASEXUAL POPULATION; EPISTATIC INTERACTIONS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CHEMISTRY; CIRCUIT SIMULATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 84874683149     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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