Gene conversion facilitates adaptive evolution on rugged fitness landscapes

Genetics

Volumn 207, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 1577-1589

  Bittihn, Philip ^a,b   Tsimring, Lev S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b University of California San Diego   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive evolution; Fitness landscape; Gene conversion; Gene duplication; Pseudogenes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DUPLICATE GENE; GENE CONVERSION; GENE DUPLICATION; LANDSCAPE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOCHASTIC MODEL; ADAPTATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; POPULATION DENSITY; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE CONVERSION; GENETIC FITNESS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; POPULATION DENSITY; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 85037057513     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.117.300350     Document Type: Article

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