Long-term selection experiments: epistasis and the response to selection.

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Two common features of long-term selection experiments are that, first, there is typically no evidence for selection limits due to exhaustion of genetic variation, and second, selection plateaus are frequently observed that last multiple generations before a response to selection is resumed. These features are usually attributed to the high mutation rates of quantitative traits, and the effects of linkage...

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