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Ecology shapes epistasis in a genotype-phenotype-fitness map for stick insect colour.
Nature ecology & evolution - 1 Dec 2020
Nosil Patrik, Villoutreix Romain, de Carvalho Clarissa F, Feder Jeffrey L, Parchman Thomas L, Gompert Zach
Abstract excerpt
Genetic interactions such as epistasis are widespread in nature and can shape evolutionary dynamics. Epistasis occurs due to nonlinearity in biological systems, which can arise via cellular processes that convert genotype to phenotype and via selective processes that connect phenotype to fitness. Few studies in nature have connected genotype to phenotype to fitness for multiple potentially interacting genetic...
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