What drives parallel evolution?: How population size and mutational variation contribute to repeated evolution.

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Parallel evolution is the repeated evolution of the same phenotype or genotype in evolutionarily independent populations. Here, we use evolve-and-resequence experiments with bacteria and yeast to dissect the drivers of parallel evolution at the gene level. A meta-analysis shows that parallel evolution is often rare, but there is a positive relationship between population size and the probability of parallelism....

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