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Don't Fall Off the Adaptation Cliff: When Asymmetrical Fitness Selects for Suboptimal Traits

The cliff-edge hypothesis introduces the counterintuitive idea that the trait value associated with the maximum of an asymmetrical fitness function is not necessarily the value that is selected for if the trait shows variability in its phenotypic expression. We develop a model of population dynamics...

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Autores principales: Vercken, Elodie, Wellenreuther, Maren, Svensson, Erik I., Mauroy, Benjamin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3324540/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22509364
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0034889