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The role of life cycle and migration in selection for variance in offspring number.

Bulletin of mathematical biology - 1 Apr 2007

Shpak Max, Proulx Stephen R

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For two genotypes that have the same mean number of offspring but differ in the variance in offspring number, naturalselection will favor the genotype with lower variance. In such cases, the average growth rate is not sufficient as a measure of fitness or as a predictor of fixation probability. However, the effect of variance in offspring number on the fixationprobability of mutant strategies has been calculated...

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PMID: 17106805
DOI: 10.1007/s11538-006-9164-y

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