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Adaptation: Genetics

  1. Michael Travisano

Published Online: 19 APR 2001

DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0001728

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Travisano, M. 2001. Adaptation: Genetics. eLS. .

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  1. University of Houston, Texas, USA

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  1. Published Online: 19 APR 2001
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Abstract

Adaptation results from the fixation of alleles that improve fitness. The precise mechanism by which adaptive alleles are fixed and the average phenotypic effect of alleles are as yet unknown.

Keywords:

  • gradualism;
  • oligogenic;
  • macromutation;
  • epistasis;
  • pleiotropy
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