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The relationship between the error catastrophe, survival of the flattest, and natural selection.
BMC evolutionary biology - 4 Jan 2011
Tejero Héctor, Marín Arturo, Montero Francisco
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The quasispecies model is a general model of evolution that is generally applicable to replication up to high mutation rates. It predicts that at a sufficiently high mutation rate, quasispecies with higher mutational robustness can displace quasispecies with higher replicative capacity, a phenomenon called "survival of the flattest". In some fitness landscapes it also predicts the existence of a...
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