Waiting for a compensatory mutation: phase zero of the shifting-balance process.

doi:10.1017/s0016672300033759

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Waiting for a compensatory mutation: phase zero of the shifting-balance process.

Genetical research - 1 Jun 1996

Phillips P C

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In highly integrated genetic systems, changes in any one component may have a deleterious effect on fitness, but coordinated, or compensatory, change in these components could lead to an overall increase in fitness compared with the current state. Wright designed his shifting-balance theory to ac...

Topics

Alleles
Gene Expression Regulation
Gene Frequency
Genetic Linkage
Markov Chains
Models, Genetic
Mutation
Selection, Genetic
Time Factors

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