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SUBMITTER: McCandlish DM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5656054 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
McCandlish David M DM Otwinowski Jakub J Plotkin Joshua B JB
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution 20150820 9
The role that epistasis plays during adaptation remains an outstanding problem, which has received considerable attention in recent years. Most of the recent empirical studies are based on ensembles of replicate populations that adapt in a fixed, laboratory controlled condition. Researchers often seek to infer the presence and form of epistasis in the fitness landscape from the time evolution of various statistics averaged across the ensemble of populations. Here, we provide a rigorous analysis ...[more]