Evolution can favor antagonistic epistasis.

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Published in Genetics on August 24, 2007

Authors

Michael M Desai1, Daniel Weissman, Marcus W Feldman

Author Affiliations

1: Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA. mmdesai@princeton.edu

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