Empirical fitness landscapes and the predictability of evolution

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 480-490

  De Visser, J Arjan G M ^a   Krug, Joachim ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ALLELE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPISTASIS; EVOLUTION; FITNESS LANDSCAPE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; LANDSCAPE; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERTANT; REVIEW; TOPOGRAPHY;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC FITNESS; GENOTYPE; METHYLOBACTERIUM EXTORQUENS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84902775598     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg3744     Document Type: Review

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