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Quantifying the Role of Population Subdivision in Evolution on Rugged Fitness Landscapes

Natural selection drives populations towards higher fitness, but crossing fitness valleys or plateaus may facilitate progress up a rugged fitness landscape involving epistasis. We investigate quantitatively the effect of subdividing an asexual population on the time it takes to cross a fitness valle...

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Autores principales: Bitbol, Anne-Florence, Schwab, David J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4133052/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25122220
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003778