Genetic drift, selection and the evolution of the mutation rate

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 704-714

  Lynch, Michael ^a   Ackerman, Matthew S ^a   Gout, Jean Francois ^a   Long, Hongan ^a   Sung, Way ^a   Thomas, W Kelley ^b   Foster, Patricia L ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA POLYMERASE;

ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPLICATION; EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC SELECTION; GENOME SIZE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; INDEL MUTATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION RATE; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PHYLOGENETIC VARIATION; PHYLOGENY; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIMPLE SEQUENCE REPEAT; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SOMATIC MUTATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION RATE; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84991712897     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg.2016.104     Document Type: Review

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