Rate of Adaptation in Large Sexual Populations
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Rate of adaptation in large sexual populations.
Adaptation often involves the acquisition of a large number of genomic changes that arise as mutations in single individuals. In asexual populations, combinations of mutations can fix only when they arise in the same lineage, but for populations in which genetic information is exchanged, beneficial mutations can arise in different individuals and be combined later. In large populations, when th...
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عنوان ژورنال: Genetics
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1943-2631
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.109.109009