Evolutionary genetics: a piggyback ride to adaptation and diversity.
Competition between adaptive mutations in different asexual lineages limits the rate of adaptation. But additional adaptive mutations can occur in lineages that already have one, altering the dynamics of evolving asexual populations.
Zeyl
Clifford
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Department of Biology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27109, USA. zeylcw@wfu.edu
D000220:Adaptation, Biological / Q000235:genetics*; D005828:Genetics, Population; D008957:Models, Genetic; D009154:Mutation / Q000235:genetics*; D012100:Reproduction, Asexual