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The contribution of selection and genetic constraints to phenotypic divergence.
The American naturalist - 1 Feb 2010
Chenoweth Stephen F, Rundle Howard D, Blows Mark W
Abstract excerpt
Although divergent natural selection is common in nature, the extent to which genetic constraints bias evolutionary trajectories in its presence remains largely unknown. Here we develop a general framework to integrate estimates of divergent selection and genetic constraints to estimate their contributions to phenotypic divergence among natural populations. We apply these methods to estimates of phenotypic...
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