A simple model of co-evolutionary dynamics caused by epistatic selection.

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Epistasis is the dependency of the effect of a mutation on the genetic background in which it occurs. Epistasis has been widely documented and implicated in the evolution of species barriers and the evolution of genetic architecture. Here we propose a simple model to formalize the idea that epistasis can also lead to co-evolutionary patterns in molecular evolution of interacting genes. This model epistasis is...

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