Article
Mutation-selection balance and the evolutionary advantage of sex and recombination.
Genetical research - 1 Jun 1990
Charlesworth B
Abstract excerpt
Mutation-selection balance in a multi-locus system is investigated theoretically, using a modification of Bulmer's infinitesimal model of selection on a normally-distributed quantitative character, taking the number of mutations per individual (n) to represent the character value. The logarithm of the fitness of an individual with n mutations is assumed to be a quadratic, decreasing function of n. The equilibrium...
Topics
- Animals
- Biological Evolution
- Epistasis, Genetic
- Female
- Male
- Mathematics
- Models, Genetic
- Mutation
- Recombination, Genetic
- Reproduction
- Reproduction, Asexual
- Selection, Genetic