Rate of adaptive peak shifts with partial genetic robustness.

Abstract excerpt

How adaptive evolution occurs with individually deleterious but jointly beneficial mutations has been one of the major problems in population genetics theory. Adaptation in this case is commonly described as a population's escape from a local peak to a higher peak on Sewall Wright's fitness landscape. Recent molecular genetic and computational studies have suggested that genetic robustness can facilitate such...

Topics

• Biological Evolution
• Computer Simulation
• Models, Genetic
• Mutation
• Selection, Genetic