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Natural selection. VI. Partitioning the information in fitness and characters by path analysis.

Journal of evolutionary biology - 1 Mar 2013

Frank S A

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Three steps aid in the analysis of selection. First, describe phenotypes by their component causes. Components include genes, maternal effects, symbionts and any other predictors of phenotype that are of interest. Second, describe fitness by its component causes, such as an individual's phenotype, its neighbours' phenotypes, resource availability and so on. Third, put the predictors of phenotype and fitness into...

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Alleles
Animals
Evolution, Molecular
Gene Frequency
Genetic Fitness
Genetics, Population
Inheritance Patterns
Models, Genetic
Phenotype
Regression Analysis
Selection, Genetic

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PMID: 23331930
DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12066

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