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Fast and strong amplifiers of natural selection.
Nature communications - 29 Jun 2021
Tkadlec Josef, Pavlogiannis Andreas, Chatterjee Krishnendu, Nowak Martin A
Abstract excerpt
Selection and random drift determine the probability that novel mutations fixate in a population. Population structure is known to affect the dynamics of the evolutionary process. Amplifiers of selection are population structures that increase the fixation probability of beneficial mutants compared to well-mixed populations. Over the past 15 years, extensive research has produced remarkable structures called...
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