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Rapid appearance of epistasis during adaptive divergence following colonization.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 7 Aug 2003
Carroll Scott P, Dingle Hugh, Famula Thomas R
Abstract excerpt
Theory predicts that short-term adaptation within populations depends on additive (A) genetic effects, while gene-gene interactions 'epistasis (E)' are important only in long-term evolution. However, few data exist on the genetic architecture of adaptive variation, and the relative importance of A versus non-additive genetic effects continues to be a central controversy of evolutionary biology after more than 70...
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