The arrival of the frequent: How bias in genotype-phenotype maps can steer populations to local optima

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Schaper, Steffen ^a,b   Louis, Ard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE MAPPING; HAPLOIDY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; POPULATION SIZE; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENOTYPE; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 84895529107     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0086635     Document Type: Article

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