“Reasonings derived from [mutation-selection balance] theory have populated scientific research for decades,” Amorim tells Inverse. Now, it seems that the theory has finally found suppor ...

For their model the scientists assumed a steady environment and suggest that there can be a mutation-selection balance in every population. They have calculated the rate of favourable mutations ...

A few weeks ago I purchased what I have since referred to as a "coffee table book for nerds," Martin Novak's Evolutionary Dynamics: Exploring the Equations of Life, a richly illustrated hardcover ...

It can occur by natural selection, when certain traits created by genetic mutations help an organism survive or reproduce. Such mutations are thus more likely to be passed on to the next ...

Frequency-dependent selection fosters the diversity of populations but does not always increase the average fitness of the population. Genetic diversity arises through the interplay of mutation ...

Sexual selection on males (through male–male ... in the equilibrium frequency of deleterious alleles at mutation–selection balance 9,10,11,12,13. Because of recurrent mutation, neither sexual ...

Biologists recently have focused on the importance of mutation-selection balance inmaintaining heritable variation in general fitness...For example, Eyre-Walker and Keightley...estimated that over ...