Phenotypic assortment mediates the effect of social selection in a wild beetle population.

doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01340.x

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Phenotypic assortment mediates the effect of social selection in a wild beetle population.

Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Oct 2011

Formica Vincent A, McGlothlin Joel W, Wood Corlett W, Augat Malcolm E, Butterfield Rebecca E, Barnard Mollie E, Brodie Edmund D

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Social interactions often have major fitness consequences, but little is known about how specific interacting phenotypes affect the strength of natural selection. Social influences on the evolutionary process can be assessed using a multilevel selection approach that partitions the effects of social partner phenotypes on fitness (referred to as social or group selection) from those of the traits of a focal...

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Animals
Body Size
Coleoptera
Female
Male
Phenotype
Selection, Genetic
Sexual Behavior, Animal
Social Behavior

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PMID: 21967420
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01340.x

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