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Measuring natural selection on genotypes and phenotypes in the wild.
Cold Spring Harbor symposia on quantitative biology - 1 Jan 2009
Linnen C R, Hoekstra H E
Abstract excerpt
A complete understanding of the role of natural selection in driving evolutionary change requires accurate estimates of the strength of selection acting in the wild. Accordingly, several approaches using a variety of data-including patterns of DNA variability, spatial and temporal changes in allele frequencies, and fitness estimates-have been developed to identify and quantify selection on both genotypes and...
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