Section: New Results

The Paradoxical Effects of Allelic Recombination on Fitness

D.P. Parsons, C. Knibbe, G. Beslon. [42]

We introduced in the aevol model the possibility of DNA exchange by allelic recombination, in order to study the influence of recombination on the evolution of both fitness and genomic architecture. Surprisingly, despite the theoretical benefits it could confer, there seems to be very little (if any) differences in the fitness of the evolved organisms between the different groups of simulations.