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Fate of a mutation in a fluctuating environment.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 8 Sept 2015
Cvijović Ivana, Good Benjamin H, Jerison Elizabeth R, Desai Michael M
Abstract excerpt
Natural environments are never truly constant, but the evolutionary implications of temporally varying selection pressures remain poorly understood. Here we investigate how the fate of a new mutation in a fluctuating environment depends on the dynamics of environmental variation and on the selective pressures in each condition. We find that even when a mutation experiences many environmental epochs before fixing...
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