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Direct and indirect phenotypic effects on sociability indicate potential to evolve.
Journal of evolutionary biology - 1 Jan 2023
Fisher David N
Abstract excerpt
The decision to leave or join a group is important as group size influences many aspects of organisms' lives and their fitness. This tendency to socialise with others, sociability, should be influenced by genes carried by focal individuals (direct genetic effects) and by genes in partner individuals (indirect genetic effects), indicating the trait's evolution could be slower or faster than expected. However,...
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