How predictable is adaptation from standing genetic variation? Experimental evolution in Drosophila highlights the central role of redundancy and linkage disequilibrium.

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Experimental evolution is well-suited to test the predictability of evolution without the confounding effects of inaccurate forecasts about future environments. Most of the literature about parallel (and thus predictable) evolution has been carried out in asexual microorganisms, which adapt by de novo mutations. Nevertheless, parallel evolution has also been studied in sexual species at the genomic level. Here, I...

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