Don't fall off the adaptation cliff: When asymmetrical fitness selects for suboptimal traits

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Vercken, Elodie ^a   Wellenreuther, Maren ^b   Svensson, Erik I ^b   Mauroy, Benjamin ^c  

^a Institut Sophia Agrobiotech   (France)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASYMMETRICAL FITNESS FUNCTION; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; CLIFF EDGE EFFECT; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FLY; GENOTYPE FITNESS; GUINEA PIG; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LITTER SIZE; LUNG; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PARAMETERS; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPE FITNESS; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDICTION; SEXUAL SELECTION; THEORY; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETIC SELECTION; GENOTYPE; HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS;

CAVIA; ZYGOPTERA;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GENETIC FITNESS; GENOTYPE; GUINEA PIGS; HUMANS; LITTER SIZE; LUNG; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84859626357     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0034889     Document Type: Article

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