Frequency‐dependent selection: a diversifying force in microbial populations

The benefits of “bet‐hedging” strategies have been assumed to be the main cause of phenotypic diversity in biological populations. However, in their recent work, Healey et al (2016) provide experimental support for negative frequency‐dependent selection (NFDS) as an alternative driving force of dive...

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Autores principales: Charlebois, Daniel A, Balázsi, Gábor
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5119495/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27487818
http://dx.doi.org/10.15252/msb.20167133
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description The benefits of “bet‐hedging” strategies have been assumed to be the main cause of phenotypic diversity in biological populations. However, in their recent work, Healey et al (2016) provide experimental support for negative frequency‐dependent selection (NFDS) as an alternative driving force of diversity. NFDS favors rare phenotypes over common ones, resulting in an evolutionarily stable mixture of phenotypes that is not necessarily optimal for population growth.
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spelling pubmed-51194952016-11-28 Frequency‐dependent selection: a diversifying force in microbial populations Charlebois, Daniel A Balázsi, Gábor Mol Syst Biol News & Views The benefits of “bet‐hedging” strategies have been assumed to be the main cause of phenotypic diversity in biological populations. However, in their recent work, Healey et al (2016) provide experimental support for negative frequency‐dependent selection (NFDS) as an alternative driving force of diversity. NFDS favors rare phenotypes over common ones, resulting in an evolutionarily stable mixture of phenotypes that is not necessarily optimal for population growth. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2016-08-03 /pmc/articles/PMC5119495/ /pubmed/27487818 http://dx.doi.org/10.15252/msb.20167133 Text en © 2016 The Authors. Published under the terms of the CC BY 4.0 license This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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