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Predictions of Patterns of Response to Artificial Selection in Lines Derived From Natural Populations
Genetics; 1/1/2005; Zhang, Xu-Sheng; Hill, William G; 9187 words
; ... fitness (the joint-effect model). Natural selection leads to an inverse correlation ... pleiotropic selection. In the former, natural selection is assumed to act directly ... 2000), while in the latter natural selection is assumed to act through pleiotropic ...
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Hitchhiking Mapping Reveals a Candidate Genomic Region for Natural Selection in Three-Spined Stickleback Chromosome VIII
Genetics; 1/1/2008; Mäkinen, Hannu S; Shikano, Takahito; Cano, José Manuel; Merilä, Juha; 8229 words
; ... genomic regions under directional natural selection has become one of the major ... markers to identify targets of natural selection (Schltterer 2002, 2003). Based ... principles of population genetics, natural selection is expected to create a skew ...
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Outdoor chic: a Natural Selection. (shopping mall) (Magic supplement)
Daily News Record; 9/26/1985; Spector, Robert; 1307 words
; BELLEVUE, Wash. (FNS)--Natural Selection, an 11-store mall concept chain ... president Bob Skar, who started Natural Selection two and a half years ago, after ... women's wear, the majority of Natural Selection's mall customers are women ...
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Opportunity for Natural Selection in a Basque Population and Its Secular Trend: Evolutionary Implications of Epidemic Mortality
Human Biology; 6/1/2004; Alfonso-Sánchez, Miguel A; Calderón, Rosario; 8386 words
; ... patterns and opportunity for natural selection could help to elucidate potential ... societies the opportunity for natural selection is determined mainly by differential ... MICROEVOLUTION, SELECTIVE PRESSURE, NATURAL SELECTION, MORTALITY CRISIS, CROW'S INDEX ...
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A hands-on exercise to demonstrate evolution by natural selection & genetic drift
The American Biology Teacher; 8/1/2003; Young, Helen J; Young, Truman P; 2508 words
; ... components of evolution by natural selection in high school biology courses ... hands-on method of teaching about natural selection that we think increases the ... introduction to evolution by natural selection: Introductory Biology, Genetics ...
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Opportunity for Natural Selection and Gene Flow in an Isolated Zapotec-Speaking Community in Southern Mexico in the Throes of a Secular Increase in Size
Human Biology; 6/1/2006; Little, B B; Reyes, ña; Malina, R M; 3949 words
; ... analyze the opportunity for natural selection and gene flow in an isolated ... gene flow and opportunity for natural selection. Gene flow increased from 3.3% to 4.7% and intensity of natural selection decreased from 1.312 to 0.272 ...
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Shifting the natural selection metaphor to the group level
Behavior and Philosophy; 4/1/2000; Thompson, Nicholas S; 8593 words
; ... from three ambiguities in the natural selection metaphor that manifest themselves ... only two extensions of the natural selection idea, kin selection and reciprocal ... the essential elements of a natural selection argument can explain entities ...
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The Rank Ordering of Genotypic Fitness Values Predicts Genetic Constraint on Natural Selection on Landscapes Lacking Sign Epistasis
Genetics; 11/1/2005; Weinreich, Daniel M; 7239 words
; ... can constrain evolution by natural selection. Wright distinguished between ... substantially greater constraint on natural selection. Here I present novel formalism ... responsible for genetic constraint on natural selection. NEARLY 75 years ago Sewall ...
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Inferring natural selection in a fossil threespine stickleback
Paleobiology; 10/1/2006; Bell, Michael A; Travis, Matthew P; Blouw, D Max; 8647 words
; ... doryssus experienced directional natural selection for reduction of armor. Nonetheless ... lineage of three methods to infer natural selection in the fossil record could ... fossil record when directional natural selection was the actual cause is very ...
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The Role of Natural Selection in Genetic Differentiation of Worldwide Populations of Drosophila ananassae
Genetics; 12/1/2004; Baines, John F; Das, Aparup; Mousset, Sylvain; Stephan, Wolfgang; 5771 words
; ... generally considered to be natural selection, random genetic drift, and ... demographic distribution of natural selection in Drosophila ananassae. Sequence ... against alternative models of natural selection provide evidence of two independent ...
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