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Genetic signature of adaptive peak shift in threespine stickleback.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Aug 2012
Rogers Sean M, Tamkee Patrick, Summers Brian, Balabahadra Sarita, Marks Melissa, Kingsley David M, Schluter Dolph
Abstract excerpt
Transition of an evolving population to a new adaptive optimum is predicted to leave a signature in the distribution of effect sizes of fixed mutations. If they affect many traits (are pleiotropic), large effect mutations should contribute more when a population evolves to a farther adaptive peak than to a nearer peak. We tested this prediction in wild threespine stickleback fish (Gasterosteus aculeatus) by...
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