Sex in a test tube: Testing the benefits of in vitro recombination

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 371, Issue 1706, 2016, Pages

  Pesce, Diego ^a   Lehman, Niles ^b   de Visser, J Arjan G M ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution of sex; Fitness landscape; In vitro recombination; Laboratory directed evolution; Origin of life

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FITNESS; GENOTYPE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LABORATORY METHOD; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID; ORIGIN OF LIFE; RECOMBINATION; SEX ROLE;

EVOLUTION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; REPRODUCTION; SEX;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPRODUCTION; SEX;

EID: 84988564541     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0529     Document Type: Review

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