Allele Surfing Promotes Microbial Adaptation from Standing Variation
Matti Gralka, Fabian Stiewe, Fred Farrell, Wolfram Moebius, Bartlomiej Waclaw, Oskar Hallatschek
The paper shows that allele surfing in microbial range expansions increases mean fitness by promoting soft selective sweeps from standing variation, enhancing adaptation rates per biomass.
Ecology Letters · Jun 16, 2016Peer-reviewedEvolutionary Biology