Article
The Role of Recombination in Evolutionary Rescue.
Genetics - 1 Feb 2016
Uecker Hildegard, Hermisson Joachim
Abstract excerpt
How likely is it that a population escapes extinction through adaptive evolution? The answer to this question is of great relevance in conservation biology, where we aim at species' rescue and the maintenance of biodiversity, and in agriculture and medicine, where we seek to hamper the emergence of pesticide or drug resistance. By reshuffling the genome, recombination has two antagonistic effects on the...
Topics
- Algorithms
- Environment
- Epistasis, Genetic
- Evolution, Molecular
- Gene-Environment Interaction
- Genes, Lethal
- Genetic Fitness
- Genetic Loci
- Genetics, Population
- Models, Genetic
- Mutation
- Recombination, Genetic