This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Despite decades of research, the factors that maintain genetic variation for fitness are poorly understood. It is unclear what fraction of the ...

To anyone with a basic understanding of evolution, it should seem puzzling that deadly genetic diseases, passed on from one generation to the next, haven’t eradicated themselves by now. Having one ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Abstract: We consider the effects of epistasis in a polygenic trait in the balance of mutation and stabilizing selection. The main issues are ...