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The role of deleterious mutations in allopatric speciation.

Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Jul 2005

Shpak Max

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Allopatric speciation is often assumed to occur as a consequence of adaptive divergence between two isolated populations. However, there are some scenarios in which reproductive isolation can be favored due to accumulated unconditionally deleterious mutations. If deleterious mutations have synergistic epistatic effects, it is shown here that the average fitness of recombinants between two parental lines with a...

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