Additive genetic variance for fitness maintained by balancing selection.

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Levels of additive genetic variation for fitness (${{V}_A}( w )$) and its components (e.g., viability and fertility) appear to be high in nature, substantially exceeding levels attributable to deleterious mutations at mutation-selection balance. Balancing selection can stably maintain genetic polymorphisms and potentially explain this "excess" fitness variation. Yet, according to classical population genetics...

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