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The effects of population bottlenecks on clonal interference, and the adaptation effective population size.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Apr 2009
Campos Paolo R A, Wahl L M
Abstract excerpt
Clonal interference refers to the competition that arises in asexual populations when multiple beneficial mutations segregate simultaneously. A large body of theoretical and experimental work now addresses this issue. Although much of the experimental work is performed in populations that grow exponentially between periodic population bottlenecks, the theoretical work to date has addressed only populations of a...
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