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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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2014-08-01
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| Series: | PLoS Computational Biology |
| Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4133052?pdf=render |