Genomic variation predicts adaptive evolutionary responses better than population bottleneck history.

The relationship between population size, inbreeding, loss of genetic variation and evolutionary potential of fitness traits is still unresolved, and large-scale empirical studies testing theoretical expectations are surprisingly scarce. Here we present a highly replicated experimental evolution set...

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Main Authors: Michael Ørsted, Ary Anthony Hoffmann, Elsa Sverrisdóttir, Kåre Lehmann Nielsen, Torsten Nygaard Kristensen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-06-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1008205