Correlational selection in the age of genomics.

doi:10.1038/s41559-021-01413-3

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Correlational selection in the age of genomics.

Nature ecology & evolution - 1 May 2021

Svensson Erik I, Arnold Stevan J, Bürger Reinhard, Csilléry Katalin, Draghi Jeremy, Henshaw Jonathan M, Jones Adam G, De Lisle Stephen, Marques David A, McGuigan Katrina, Simon Monique N, Runemark Anna

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Ecologists and evolutionary biologists are well aware that natural and sexual selection do not operate on traits in isolation, but instead act on combinations of traits. This long-recognized and pervasive phenomenon is known as multivariate selection, or-in the particular case where it favours correlations between interacting traits-correlational selection. Despite broad acknowledgement of correlational...

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Biological Evolution
Genome
Genomics
Phenotype
Selection, Genetic

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PMID: 33859374
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-021-01413-3

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