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Fig. 3 | BMC Ecology and Evolution

Fig. 3

From: Resampling the pool of genotypic possibilities: an adaptive function of sexual reproduction

Fig. 3

Fitness changes in sexual and asexual populations. Numerical simulations were performed using 20 unlinked loci. Selectively favored alleles had an initial frequency of 0.01. The selection coefficient for a favored allele was 0.1 and fitnesses were multiplicative between loci. Selection was implemented during the diploid phase of the life cycle. Three different population sizes were used: N = 100,000 (Panels A and B); N = 10,000 (Panels C and D); N = 1,000 (Panels E and F). Three replicates were performed for each simulation. Because of the greater variation between replicates in the case where N = 1,000, a further 30 replicates were performed for this case and the results are shown as a dashed line in Panel E

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