Stronger selection can slow down evolution driven by recombination on a smooth fitness landscape.

Stronger selection implies faster evolution-that is, the greater the force, the faster the change. This apparently self-evident proposition, however, is derived under the assumption that genetic variation within a population is primarily supplied by mutation (i.e. mutation-driven evolution). Here, w...

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Published in:PLoS ONE
Main Authors: Masahiko Ueda, Nobuto Takeuchi, Kunihiko Kaneko
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5557360?pdf=render