Discover Community Create You

Loading publication...

Noodle always counts identifier-free feature events for service operation. With your permission, Google Analytics can also estimate audience and engagement. Search text, publication identifiers, cookies, IP addresses and browser fingerprints are never included in Noodle's first-party event counters.

Privacy details

Article

Survival of the steepest: hypersensitivity to mutations as an adaptation to soft selection.

Journal of evolutionary biology - 1 Apr 2009

Archetti M

Abstract excerpt

Darwinian evolution favours genotypes with high fitness ('survival of the fittest'). Models of quasi-species evolution, however, suggest that in some cases selection may favour genotypes that are more robust against the impact of mutations ('survival of the flattest') even if these genotypes have lower fitness. I show that the opposite effect will be observed if competition occurs during development (e.g. among...

Read the complete abstract on PubMed

Topics

Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.

Share to Adaptation, Biological
Share to Computer Simulation
Share to Models, Genetic

Methodology Data sources Editorial policy Privacy About Contact Helena Bioinformatics

Share to Mutation

Share to Selection, Genetic

Source

Identifiers

PMID: 19243489
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2009.01697.x

Provenance

PubMed metadata and Literature Corpus relationships. Corpus snapshot updated 7 Sept 2026. Manifest publication-graph-cohort-2026-09-07.1.

Source receipt: pubmed, retrieved 7 Sept 2026.

Related research

Semantic proximity does not establish scientific evidence.

Research trail→

Click a neighbor to travelStep 1 · 12 closest

Survival of the steepest: hypersensitivity to mutations as an adaptation to soft selection.PMID 19243489Read ↗

Hard and Soft Selection Revisited: How Evolution by Natural Selection Works in the Real World.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Mechanisms and selection of evolvability: experimental evidence.Semantic proximity Read ↗

The ecological causes and consequences of hard and soft selection.Semantic proximity Read ↗

On the unfounded enthusiasm for soft selective sweeps.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Evolutionary branching of a magic trait.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Variation in the strength and softness of selection on deleterious mutations.Semantic proximity Read ↗

The effects of competition on the strength and softness of selection.Semantic proximity Read ↗

The relationship between the error catastrophe, survival of the flattest, and natural selection.Semantic proximity Read ↗

The maintenance (or not) of polygenic variation by soft selection in heterogeneous environments.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Stress-resistance genotypes, metabolic efficiency and interpreting evolutionary change.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Percolation on the fitness hypercube and the evolution of reproductive isolation.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Success in mating: a coordinated approach to fitness through genotypes incorporating genes for stress resistance and heterozygous advantage under stress.Semantic proximity Read ↗

⌁Select a neighboring publication to make it the new centre.