Elucidating the molecular architecture of adaptation via evolve and resequence experiments

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 567-582

  Long, Anthony ^a   Liti, Gianni ^b   Luptak, Andrej ^a   Tenaillon, Olivier ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; RNA;

BACTERIUM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EPISTASIS; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; YEAST; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MUTATION; PROCEDURES; RNA FOLDING;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETICS, MICROBIAL; GENETICS, POPULATION; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; MUTATION; RNA FOLDING; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84941934046     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg3937     Document Type: Review

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