The conversion of variance and the evolutionary potential of restricted recombination.

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Genetic recombination is usually considered to facilitate adaptive evolution. However, recombination prevents the reliable cotransmission of interacting gene combinations and can disrupt complexes of coadapted genes. If interactions between genes have important fitness effects, restricted recombination may lead to evolutionary responses that are different from those predicted from a purely additive model and...

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