Article
Mutational robustness can facilitate adaptation.
Nature - 21 Jan 2010
Draghi Jeremy A, Parsons Todd L, Wagner Günter P, Plotkin Joshua B
Abstract excerpt
Robustness seems to be the opposite of evolvability. If phenotypes are robust against mutation, we might expect that a population will have difficulty adapting to an environmental change, as several studies have suggested. However, other studies contend that robust organisms are more adaptable. A...
Topics
- Adaptation, Physiological
- Biological Evolution
- Genetic Fitness
- Genetic Variation
- Genetics, Population
- Genotype
- Models, Genetic
- Mutagenesis
- Mutation
- Phenotype
- Population Density
- Time Factors