Article
Reproductive value and fluctuating selection in an age-structured population.
Genetics - 1 Oct 2009
Engen Steinar, Lande Russell, Saether Bernt-Erik
Abstract excerpt
Fluctuations in age structure caused by environmental stochasticity create autocorrelation and transient fluctuations in both population size and allele frequency, which complicate demographic and evolutionary analyses. Following a suggestion of Fisher, we show that weighting individuals of different age by their reproductive value serves as a filter, removing temporal autocorrelation in population demography and...
Topics
- Algorithms
- Animals
- Computer Simulation
- Evolution, Molecular
- Female
- Fertility
- Gene Frequency
- Genetics, Population
- Genotype
- Humans
- Male
- Models, Genetic