Article
Social causes of correlational selection and the resolution of a heritable throat color polymorphism in a lizard.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Oct 2001
Sinervo B, Bleay C, Adamopoulou C
Abstract excerpt
When selection acts on social or behavioral traits, the fitness of an individual depends on the phenotypes of its competitors. Here, we describe methods and statistical inference for measuring natural selection in small social groups. We measured selection on throat color alleles that arises from microgeographic variation in allele frequency at natal sites of side-blotched lizards (Uta stansburiana). Previous...
Topics
- Alleles
- Animals
- Breeding
- Crosses, Genetic
- Female
- Lizards
- Male
- Ovum
- Phenotype
- Polymorphism, Genetic
- Probability
- Selection, Genetic