Multidimensional Epistasis and the Transitory Advantage of Sex

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Nowak, Stefan ^a   Neidhart, Johannes ^a   Szendro, Ivan G ^a   Krug, Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANTAGE OF SEX; EVOLUTIONARY DYNAMICS; EVOLUTIONARY THEORIES; FITNESS LANDSCAPE; HIGH-DIMENSIONAL; HIGHER-DIMENSIONAL; MULTIDIMENSIONAL EPISTASIS; POPULATION DIVERSITY; STANDING PROBLEMS; TEMPORAL DEVELOPMENT;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPISTASIS; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FITNESS LANDSCAPE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOIDY; HUMAN; MUTATION RATE; POPULATION SIZE; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SEX; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; REPRODUCTION;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MODELS, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPRODUCTIVE PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84907587685     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003836     Document Type: Article

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