Adaptive evolution of nontransitive fitness in yeast

A common misconception is that evolution is a linear ‘march of progress’, where each organism along a line of descent is more fit than all those that came before it. Rejecting this misconception implies that evolution is nontransitive: a series of adaptive events will, on occasion, produce organisms...

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Main Authors: Sean W Buskirk, Alecia B Rokes, Gregory I Lang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2020-12-01
Series:eLife
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Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/62238