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On the contribution of deleterious alleles to fitness variance in natural populations of Drosophila.

Genetical research - 1 Oct 1997

Santos M

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I have studied the consequences of habitat patchiness on the persistence times of deleterious alleles in a random mating population. Results based on computer simulations and supported by analytical approximations suggest that deleterious alleles remain approximately 1/(1-2FST) more generations in the patchy than in a comparable homogeneous population, where 0 < FST < or = 0.25 is the fraction of genetic variance...

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PMID: 9449187
DOI: 10.1017/s0016672397002942

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