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The Rate of Beneficial Mutations Surfing on the Wave of a Range Expansion

Many theoretical and experimental studies suggest that range expansions can have severe consequences for the gene pool of the expanding population. Due to strongly enhanced genetic drift at the advancing frontier, neutral and weakly deleterious mutations can reach large frequencies in the newly colo...

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Autores principales: Lehe, Rémi, Hallatschek, Oskar, Peliti, Luca
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3315454/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22479175
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002447