Reciprocal sign epistasis between frequently experimentally evolved adaptive mutations causes a rugged fitness landscape.
The fitness landscape captures the relationship between genotype and evolutionary fitness and is a pervasive metaphor used to describe the possible evolutionary trajectories of adaptation. However, little is known about the actual shape of fitness landscapes, including whether valleys of low fitness...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2011-04-01
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Series: | PLoS Genetics |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3084205?pdf=render |