Recombination accelerates adaptation on a large-scale empirical fitness landscape in HIV-1.

Recombination has the potential to facilitate adaptation. In spite of the substantial body of theory on the impact of recombination on the evolutionary dynamics of adapting populations, empirical evidence to test these theories is still scarce. We examined the effect of recombination on adaptation o...

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Main Authors: Danesh Moradigaravand, Roger Kouyos, Trevor Hinkley, Mojgan Haddad, Christos J Petropoulos, Jan Engelstädter, Sebastian Bonhoeffer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-06-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4072600?pdf=render