The roles of standing genetic variation and evolutionary history in determining the evolvability of anti-predator strategies.

Standing genetic variation and the historical environment in which that variation arises (evolutionary history) are both potentially significant determinants of a population's capacity for evolutionary response to a changing environment. Using the open-ended digital evolution software Avida, we...

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Main Authors: Daniel R O'Donnell, Abhijna Parigi, Jordan A Fish, Ian Dworkin, Aaron P Wagner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4067307?pdf=render