Fig. 2
From: Resampling the pool of genotypic possibilities: an adaptive function of sexual reproduction
The relationship between the increase in the frequency of favorable alleles at individual genetic loci (X axis) and the expected frequency of the optimal genotypic combination. As can been seen from the figure, the frequency of the optimal genotype stays close to zero over most of the frequency range at the individual loci. This effect is most pronounced for 200 gene loci (solid line) but it can also be seen for as few as 20 loci (dashed line). The frequency of the optimal genotype, G, is estimated by G = p1.p2.p3……pL, where p represents the frequency of the favorable allele at individual loci and L is the number of loci