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Social effects for locomotion vary between environments in Drosophila melanogaster females.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Jul 2017
Signor Sarah A, Abbasi Mohammad, Marjoram Paul, Nuzhdin Sergey V
Abstract excerpt
Despite strong purifying or directional selection, variation is ubiquitous in populations. One mechanism for the maintenance of variation is indirect genetic effects (IGEs), as the fitness of a given genotype will depend somewhat on the genes of its social partners. IGEs describe the effect of genes in social partners on the expression of the phenotype of a focal individual. Here, we ask what effect IGEs, and...
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