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Levels of selection on threshold characters.

Genetics - 1 Jun 2008

Moorad Jacob A, Linksvayer Timothy A

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Threshold models are useful for understanding the evolution of dimorphic traits with polygenic bases. Selection for threshold characters on individuals is expected to be frequency dependent because of the peculiar way that selection views underlying genetic and environmental factors. Selection among individuals is inefficient because individual phenotypes fall into only two discrete categories that map...

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PMID: 18505869
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.108.086959
PMCID: PMC2429883

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