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Synergistic Pleiotropy Overrides the Costs of Complexity in Viral Adaptation.
Genetics - 1 Jan 2016
McGee Lindsey W, Sackman Andrew M, Morrison Anneliese J, Pierce Jessica, Anisman Jeremy, Rokyta Darin R
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Adaptive evolution progresses as a series of steps toward a multidimensional phenotypic optimum, and organismal or environmental complexity determines the number of phenotypic dimensions, or traits, under selection. Populations evolving in complex environments may experience costs of complexity such that improvement in one or more traits is impeded by selection on others. We compared the fitness effects of the...
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