Dominance reversals and the maintenance of genetic variation for fitness.

Abstract excerpt

Antagonistic selection between different fitness components (e.g., survival versus fertility) or different types of individuals in a population (e.g., females versus males) can potentially maintain genetic diversity and thereby account for the high levels of fitness variation observed in natural populations. However, the degree to which antagonistic selection can maintain genetic variation critically depends on...

Topics

• Female
• Male
• Alleles
• Genetic Variation
• Models, Genetic
• Polymorphism, Genetic
• Selection, Genetic