Publication Date:
2013-09-15
Description:
Article A central tenet of population genetics is that the probability of fixing beneficial new alleles in a population is twice their fitness effect, but this has not been empirically proven. Chelo et al . show experimentally, using nematode worms, that extinction rates decrease when the number of beneficial alleles increases. Nature Communications doi: 10.1038/ncomms3417 Authors: Ivo M. Chelo, Judit Nédli, Isabel Gordo, Henrique Teotónio
Electronic ISSN:
2041-1723
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics