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How genotype-by-environment interactions on fitness emerge

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Experiments in budding yeast reveal how the effects of mutations on phenotype and fitness vary across environments.

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Fig. 1: How GEI can alter the mapping of genotype to fitness.

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  1. Département de Biochimie, Microbiologie et Bioinformatique, Université Laval, Quebec, Quebec, Canada

    Simon Aubé & Christian R. Landry

  2. Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes (IBIS), Université Laval, Quebec, Quebec, Canada

    Simon Aubé & Christian R. Landry

  3. PROTEO, Le réseau québécois de recherche sur la fonction, la structure et l’ingénierie des protéines, Université Laval, Quebec, Quebec, Canada

    Simon Aubé & Christian R. Landry

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    Simon Aubé & Christian R. Landry

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