Robustness promotes evolvability of thermotolerance in an RNA virus
McBride RC, Ogbunugafor CB, Turner PE. Robustness promotes evolvability of thermotolerance in an RNA virus. BMC Ecology And Evolution 2008, 8: 231. PMID: 18694497, PMCID: PMC2518931, DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-8-231.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsGenetic robustnessEfficacy of selectionNew habitatsEvolutionary biologyVirus adaptabilityLaboratory populationsMutational changesNew nichesEvolvabilityRNA virusesFace of perturbationsGreater toleranceThermotoleranceRobust clonesNovel environmentClonesBiological systemsBalance of robustnessFuture adaptationUnderlying mechanismHabitatsNicheBiologyGreater resistancePopulation