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The probability of parallel evolution.

Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Jan 2005

Orr H Allen

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How often will natural selection drive parallel evolution at the DNA sequence level? More precisely, what is the probability that selection will cause two populations that live in identical environments to substitute the same beneficial mutation? Here I show that, under fairly general conditions, the answer is simple: if a wild-type sequence can mutate to n different beneficial mutations, replicate populations...

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