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Robustness promotes evolvability of thermotolerance in an RNA virus.
BMC evolutionary biology - 11 Aug 2008
McBride Robert C, Ogbunugafor C Brandon, Turner Paul E
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BACKGROUND: The ability for an evolving population to adapt to a novel environment is achieved through a balance of robustness and evolvability. Robustness is the invariance of phenotype in the face of perturbation and evolvability is the capacity to adapt in response to selection. Genetic robust...
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