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Social Effects on Annual Fitness in Red Squirrels.
The Journal of heredity - 17 Feb 2022
McAdam Andrew G, Webber Quinn M R, Dantzer Ben, Lane Jeffrey E, Boutin Stan
Abstract excerpt
When resources are limited, mean fitness is constrained and competition can cause genes and phenotypes to enhance an individual's own fitness while reducing the fitness of their competitors. Negative social effects on fitness have the potential to constrain adaptation, but the interplay between ecological opportunity and social constraints on adaptation remains poorly studied in nature. Here, we tested for...
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