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Hidden Epistastic Interactions Can Favour the Evolution of Sex and Recombination

Deleterious mutations can have a strong influence on the outcome of evolution. The nature of this influence depends on how mutations combine together to affect fitness. “Negative epistasis” occurs when a new deleterious mutation causes the greatest loss in fitness in a genome that already contains m...

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Autores principales: Peck, Joel R., Waxman, David, Welch, John J.
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/PMC3504047/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23185255
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0048382