Article
Soft Selective Sweeps in Evolutionary Rescue.
Genetics - 1 Apr 2017
Wilson Benjamin A, Pennings Pleuni S, Petrov Dmitri A
Abstract excerpt
Evolutionary rescue occurs when a population that is declining in size because of an environmental change is rescued from extinction by genetic adaptation. Evolutionary rescue is an important phenomenon at the intersection of ecology and population genetics, and the study of evolutionary rescue is critical to understanding processes ranging from species conservation to the evolution of drug and pesticide...
Topics
- Adaptation, Physiological
- Evolution, Molecular
- Genetic Fitness
- Models, Genetic
- Mutation
- Selection, Genetic