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Daily Archives: 28 May, 2015
Sexual selection and population fitness
Sexual selection or non-random mate choice acts to ‘filter’ out less competitive/desirable phenotypes from a population. In the presence of small effect mutation loads, i.e. small fitness differences between a mutation-free population, and one with persistent deleterious mutations, sexual selection … Continue reading
Posted in adaptation, evolution, mutation, population genetics
Tagged ecological speciation, genomics, natural selection, population genetics
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