Epistasis can facilitate the evolution of reproductive isolation by peak shifts: a two-locus two-allele model.

doi:10.1093/genetics/138.2.533

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Epistasis can facilitate the evolution of reproductive isolation by peak shifts: a two-locus two-allele model.

Genetics - 1 Oct 1994

Wagner A, Wagner G P, Similion P

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The influence of epistasis on the evolution of reproductive isolation by peak shifts is studied in a two-locus two-allele model of a quantitative genetic character under stabilizing selection. Epistasis is introduced by a simple multiplicative term in the function that maps gene effects onto geno...

Topics

Alleles
Animals
Biological Evolution
Crosses, Genetic
Female
Genotype
Male
Models, Genetic
Models, Statistical
Probability
Reproduction

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