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On the standardization of fitness and traits in comparative studies of phenotypic selection.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Oct 2017
De Lisle Stephen P, Svensson Erik I
Abstract excerpt
Comparisons of the strength and form of phenotypic selection among groups provide a powerful approach for testing adaptive hypotheses. A central and largely unaddressed issue is how fitness and phenotypes are standardized in such studies; standardization across or within groups can qualitatively change conclusions whenever mean fitness differs between groups. We briefly reviewed recent relevant literature, and...
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