Mutation accumulation, soft selection and the middle-class neighborhood.

Abstract excerpt

The "middle-class neighborhood" is a breeding design intended to allow new mutations to accumulate by lessening the effects of purifying selection through the elimination of among-line fitness variation. We show that this design effectively applies soft selection to the experimental population, potentially causing biased estimates of mutational effects if social effects contribute to fitness.

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