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A test and review of the role of effective population size on experimental sexual selection patterns.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Jul 2009
Snook Rhonda R, Brüstle Lena, Slate Jon
Abstract excerpt
Experimental evolution, particularly experimental sexual selection in which sexual selection strength is manipulated by altering the mating system, is an increasingly popular method for testing evolutionary theory. Concerns have arisen regarding genetic diversity variation across experimental treatments: differences in the number and sex ratio of breeders (effective population size; N(e)) and the potential for...
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