Diminishing-returns epistasis among random beneficial mutations in a multicellular fungus

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 283, Issue 1837, 2016, Pages

  Schoustra, Sijmen ^a   Hwang, Sungmin ^b   Krug, Joachim ^b   de Visser, J Arjan G M ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Aspergillus nidulans; Beneficial mutation; Epistasis; Fisher s geometric model

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; EPISTASIS; FITNESS; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIATION; MUTATION; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EMERICELLA NIDULANS; FUNGI;

ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EPISTASIS; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MUTATION; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS;

ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GENETIC FITNESS; GENOTYPE; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION;

EID: 84983469017     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.1376     Document Type: Article

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