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Evolutionary escape is the process whereby a population under sudden changes in the selective pressures acting upon it try to evade extinction by evolving from previously well-adapted phenotypes to those that are favoured by the new selective pressure. This evolutionary process is driven by gene mutations. Some examples are: (1) viruses evading anti-microbial therapy, (2) cancer cells escaping from chemotherapy, (3) parasite infecting a new host, and also (4) species trying to invade a new ecological niche.
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Ibáñez-Marcelo, E., Alarcón, T. (2015). Evolutionary Escape in Populations with Genotype-Phenotype Structure. In: Corbera, M., Cors, J., Llibre, J., Korobeinikov, A. (eds) Extended Abstracts Spring 2014. Trends in Mathematics(), vol 4. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22129-8_19
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