Rapid evolutionary escape by large populations from local fitness peaks is likely in nature

Evolution

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1175-1182

  Weinreich, Daniel M ^a   Chao, Lin ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Compensatory mutation; Epistasis; Fitness landscape; Genetic recombination; Mean fitness; Shifting balance theory

Indexed keywords

EPISTASIS; EVOLUTION; FITNESS; MUTATION;

EID: 21044446722     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2005.tb01769.x     Document Type: Article

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