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A controversial genetic restoration mechanism has been proposed for the model organism \nArabidopsis thaliana. This theory proposes that genetic material from non-parental ancestors is \nused to restore genetic information that was inadvertently corrupted during reproduction. We \nevaluate the effectiveness of this strategy by adapting it to an evolutionary algorithm solving two \ndistinct benchmark optimization problems. We compare the performance of the proposed strategy \nwith a number of alternate strategies – including the Mendelian alternative. Included in this \ncomparison are a number of biologically implausible templates that help elucidate likely reasons \nfor the relative performance of the different templates. Results show that the proposed non- \nMendelian restoration strategy is highly effective across the range of conditions investigated – \nsignificantly outperforming the Mendelian alternative in almost every situation.
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A controversial genetic restoration mechanism has been proposed for the model organism \nArabidopsis thaliana. This theory proposes that genetic material from non-parental ancestors is \nused to restore genetic information that was inadvertently corrupted during reproduction. We \nevaluate the effectiveness of this strategy by adapting it to an evolutionary algorithm solving two \ndistinct benchmark optimization problems. We compare the performance of the proposed strategy \nwith a number of alternate strategies – including the Mendelian alternative. Included in this \ncomparison are a number of biologically implausible templates that help elucidate likely reasons \nfor the relative performance of the different templates. Results show that the proposed non- \nMendelian restoration strategy is highly effective across the range of conditions investigated – \nsignificantly outperforming the Mendelian alternative in almost every situation.
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