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A century of theories of balancing selection

2025-02-14

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Traits that affect organismal fitness are often very genetically variable. This genetic variation is vital for populations to adapt to their environments, but it is also surprising given that nature (after all) “selects” the best genotypes at the expense of those that fall short. Explaining the extensive genetic variation of fitness-related traits is thus a longstanding puzzle in evolutionary biology, with cascadi...

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Literature Corpus work: 09ef8d10-38fd-58fd-bb3d-60a86e523837
DOI: 10.1101/2025.02.12.637871

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