Mechanisms of adaptation in rapidly changing environments.

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Adaptation in rapidly changing environments entails rapid shifts in phenotypic distributions or allele frequencies. This process hinges on the amount of genetic variation. Recent empirical work suggests that balancing selection can potentiate such adaptation, while theoretical studies highlight storage effects as plausible mechanisms underlying balanced polymorphism. Polygenic theory recently proposed that...

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