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Bigger Is Fitter? Quantitative Genetic Decomposition of Selection Reveals an Adaptive Evolutionary Decline of Body Mass in a Wild Rodent Population.

PLoS biology - 1 Jan 2017

Bonnet Timothée, Wandeler Peter, Camenisch Glauco, Postma Erik

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In natural populations, quantitative trait dynamics often do not appear to follow evolutionary predictions. Despite abundant examples of natural selection acting on heritable traits, conclusive evidence for contemporary adaptive evolution remains rare for wild vertebrate populations, and phenotypic stasis seems to be the norm. This so-called "stasis paradox" highlights our inability to predict evolutionary...

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PMID: 28125583
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002592
PMCID: PMC5268405

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