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Cycling in simple genetic systems

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We describe the — unexpected — occurrence of stable limit cycles in the two locus, two allele model. No frequency dependence is involved. The cycles are due to the interaction between recombination and natural selection.

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This work received support from the National Science Foundation and the Research Foundation of the City University of New York

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Akin, E. Cycling in simple genetic systems. J. Math. Biology 13, 305–324 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00276066

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