Robustness promotes evolvability of thermotolerance in an RNA virus

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The ability for an evolving population to adapt to a novel environment is achieved through a balance of robustness and evolvability. Robustness is the invariance of phenotype in the face of perturbation and evolvability is the capaci...

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Main Authors: Turner Paul E, Ogbunugafor C Brandon, McBride Robert C
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2008-08-01
Series:BMC Evolutionary Biology
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/8/231