The Population Genetics of Evolutionary Rescue

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Orr, H Allen ^a   Unckless, Robert L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MATHEMATICS; MEDICINE; MODEL; MUTATION; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION SIZE; PROBABILITY; REBOUND; SELECTIVE SWEEP; ADAPTATION; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; POPULATION DENSITY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALLELES; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ENVIRONMENT; GENETICS, POPULATION; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; MUTATION; POPULATION DENSITY; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84914103725     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004551     Document Type: Article

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