Inevitability of genetic parasites

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 2856-2869

  Iranzo, Jaime ^a   Puigbo, Pere ^a,b   Lobkovsky, Alexander E ^a   Wolf, Yuri I ^a   Koonin, Eugene V ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

genetic parasites; homologous recombination; horizontal gene transfer; mathematical modeling.; Muller's ratchet

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; GENOME; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; PARASITE; TRANSPOSON; VIRUS;

ANIMALS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PARASITES; VIRUSES;

EID: 84994457582     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evw193     Document Type: Article

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