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Social and genetic interactions drive fitness variation in a free-living dolphin population.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 16 Nov 2010
Frère Celine H, Krützen Michael, Mann Janet, Connor Richard C, Bejder Lars, Sherwin William B
Abstract excerpt
The evolutionary forces that drive fitness variation in species are of considerable interest. Despite this, the relative importance and interactions of genetic and social factors involved in the evolution of fitness traits in wild mammalian populations are largely unknown. To date, a few studies have demonstrated that fitness might be influenced by either social factors or genes in natural populations, but none...
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