Evolution of mutational robustness in an RNA virus.

doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0030381

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Evolution of mutational robustness in an RNA virus.

PLoS biology - 1 Nov 2005

Montville Rebecca, Froissart Remy, Remold Susanna K, Tenaillon Olivier, Turner Paul E

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Mutational (genetic) robustness is phenotypic constancy in the face of mutational changes to the genome. Robustness is critical to the understanding of evolution because phenotypically expressed genetic variation is the fuel of natural selection. Nonetheless, the evidence for adaptive evolution o...

Topics

Bacteriophage phi 6
Biological Evolution
DNA Mutational Analysis
Evolution, Molecular
Gene Frequency
Genes, Viral
Genetic Complementation Test
Genetic Variation
Genome
Genotype
Models, Genetic
Models, Statistical
Mutation
Phenotype
Plants
Pseudomonas
RNA
RNA Phages

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