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Heterozygote advantage for fecundity.

PloS one - 27 Dec 2006

Gemmell Neil J, Slate Jon

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Heterozygote advantage, or overdominance, remains a popular and persuasive explanation for the maintenance of genetic variation in natural populations in the face of selection. However, despite being first proposed more than 80 years ago, there remain few examples that fit the criteria for heterozygote advantage, all of which are associated with disease resistance and are maintained only in the presence of...

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PMID: 17205129
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000125
PMCID: PMC1762409

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