Epistasis can lead to fragmented neutral spaces and contingency in evolution.
In evolution, the effects of a single deleterious mutation can sometimes be compensated for by a second mutation which recovers the original phenotype. Such epistatic interactions have implications for the structure of genome space--namely, that networks of genomes encoding the same phenotype may no...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2012
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