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Evolution 101: Fitness Landscapes

Posted on October 8, 2012 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s Evolution 101 blog post is by MSU postdoc Arend Hintze and MSU graduate student Randy Olson. While fitness landscapes are generally thought to be more of a theoretical construct, they are in fact quite tangible and underly every … Continue reading →

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Evolution 101: Epistasis

Posted on September 17, 2012 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s Evolution 101 post is by MSU postdoc Bjørn Østman. Bjørn also blogs at Pleiotropy. What is epistasis? Epistasis is a measure of the strength of epistatic interactions. Epistatic interactions are non-additive interactions between alleles, loci, or mutations. That is, … Continue reading →

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Evolution of Music Illustrates Epistatic Interactions

Posted on July 10, 2012 by Danielle Whittaker

In today’s issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, BEACONite Chris Adami comments on a research article by MacCallum, Mauch, Burt & Leroy on “The evolution of music by public choice.” Much like the digital evolution techniques used … Continue reading →

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