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Fisher's geometric model with a moving optimum.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Sept 2014
Matuszewski Sebastian, Hermisson Joachim, Kopp Michael
Abstract excerpt
Fisher's geometric model has been widely used to study the effects of pleiotropy and organismic complexity on phenotypic adaptation. Here, we study a version of Fisher's model in which a population adapts to a gradually moving optimum. Key parameters are the rate of environmental change, the dimensionality of phenotype space, and the patterns of mutational and selectional correlations. We focus on the...
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