Diminishing Returns Epistasis Among Beneficial Mutations Decelerates Adaptation
- 3 June 2011
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 332 (6034), 1190-1192
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1203799
Abstract
Interactions between genes reduce the benefits of a mutation and decrease the rate of fitness gain during adaptation.Keywords
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