Balancing selection via life-history trade-offs maintains an inversion polymorphism in a seaweed fly

Autor: Claire Mérot, Violaine Llaurens, Eric Normandeau, Louis Bernatchez, Maren Wellenreuther
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Nature Communications, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-14479-7
Popis: Few studies empirically pinpoint how balanced polymorphisms are maintained. “Mérot et al”. identify an inversion polymorphism that is maintained in seaweed fly populations because of antagonistic pleiotropy that mediates a classic life history tradeoff between larval survival and adult reproduction.
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