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Antagonistic pleiotropy involving promoter sequences in a virus.
Journal of molecular biology - 3 Oct 2008
Presloid John B, Ebendick-Corpus Bonnie E, Zárate Selene, Novella Isabel S
Abstract excerpt
Selection of specialist genotypes, that is, populations with limited niche width, promotes the maintenance of diversity. Specialization to a particular environment may have a cost in other environments, including fitness tradeoffs. When the tradeoffs are the result of mutations that have a beneficial effect in the selective environment but a deleterious effect in other environments, we have antagonistic...
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