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Evolution of Epistasis: Small Populations Go Their Separate Ways

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D.M.M. acknowledges support from the NIH (1R35GM133613), an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, and funding from the Simons Center for Quantitative Biology at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. G.I.L. acknowledges support from the NIH (1R01GM127420).

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    David M. McCandlish

  2. Department of Biological Sciences, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, 18015, USA

    Gregory I. Lang

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McCandlish, D.M., Lang, G.I. Evolution of Epistasis: Small Populations Go Their Separate Ways. J Mol Evol 88, 418–420 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00239-020-09950-4

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