Empirical fitness landscapes reveal accessible evolutionary paths
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- 1 January 2007
- journal article
- progress
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature
- Vol. 445 (7126) , 383-386
- https://doi.org/10.1038/nature05451
Abstract
When attempting to understand evolution, we traditionally rely on analysing evolutionary outcomes, despite the fact that unseen intermediates determine its course. A handful of recent studies has begun to explore these intermediate evolutionary forms, which can be reconstructed in the laboratory. With this first view on empirical evolutionary landscapes, we can now finally start asking why particular evolutionary paths are taken.Keywords
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