The fate of a mutation in a fluctuating environment
Ivana Cvijovic, Benjamin H. Good, Elizabeth R. Jerison, Michael M. Desai
This study examines how mutations' fates in fluctuating environments depend on environmental dynamics and selective pressures, finding that temporal variation can reduce selection efficiency and increase fixation probabilities for certain mutations.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · Aug 24, 2015Peer-reviewedEvolutionary Biology