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Don'T fall off the adaptation cliff: when asymmetrical fitness selects for suboptimal traits.

PloS one - 1 Jan 2012

Vercken Elodie, Wellenreuther Maren, Svensson Erik I, Mauroy Benjamin

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The cliff-edge hypothesis introduces the counterintuitive idea that the trait value associated with the maximum of an asymmetrical fitness function is not necessarily the value that is selected for if the trait shows variability in its phenotypic expression. We develop a model of population dynamics to show that, in such a system, the evolutionary stable strategy depends on both the shape of the fitness function...

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PMID: 22509364
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0034889
PMCID: PMC3324540

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