Mate choice for nonadditive genetic benefits and the maintenance of genetic diversity in song sparrows.

doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2008.01646.x

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Mate choice for nonadditive genetic benefits and the maintenance of genetic diversity in song sparrows.

Journal of evolutionary biology - 1 Feb 2009

Neff B D, Pitcher T E

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The lek paradox asserts that strong directional selection via female choice should deplete additive genetic variation in fitness and consequently any benefit to females expressing the preference. Recently, we have provided a novel resolution to the paradox by showing that nonadditive genetic effe...

Topics

Animals
Female
Genetic Variation
Inbreeding
Male
Mating Preference, Animal
Models, Genetic
Regression Analysis
Sparrows

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