Fitness consequences of artificial selection on relative male genital size

Autor: Isobel Booksmythe, Megan L. Head, J. Scott Keogh, Michael D. Jennions
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Nature Communications, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2016)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11597
Popis: Within species, there tends to be a tight relationship between genital size and body size, suggesting strong stabilizing selection. Here, Booksmythe et al.artificially select relative genital size in mosquitofish and find that novel genital size-body size combinations do not lead to expected fitness reductions.
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