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    In population genetics, directional selection is a type of natural selection in which one extreme phenotype is favored over both the other extreme and...
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    of its effect on allele frequencies: directional, stabilizing, and disruptive selection. Directional selection occurs when an allele has a greater fitness...
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    Evolution (redirect from Mutation-selection)
    height, can be categorised into three different types. The first is directional selection, which is a shift in the average value of a trait over time—for...
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    variation found in a population. Stabilizing selection is the most common form of nonlinear selection (non-directional) in humans. There are few examples of...
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    2. Truncation and Threshold Selection" Crow 2010, "On epistasis: why it is unimportant in polygenic directional selection" Visscher et al. 2008, "Heritability...
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    A selection limit is a term from animal breeding and quantitative genetics that refers to a cessation of progress even when continued directional selection...
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    Disruptive selection. Character displacement Balancing selection Directional selection Negative selection (natural selection) Stabilizing selection Sympatric...
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    evolutionary processes including, but not limited to, bottlenecks, directional selection, and higher rates of mutation resulting in evolutionary trajectories...
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    individuals. This suggests a rather general explanation for altruism. Directional selection always favours those with higher rates of fecundity within a certain...
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  • Balancing selection Directional selection Disruptive selection Dysgenics Fluctuating selection Genetic purging Koinophilia Mutation–selection balance Stabilizing...
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  • of selection dynamics: negative frequency-dependent selection when a rare allele has a selective advantage; heterozygote advantage; and directional selection...
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    bees are the result of a directional selection that acts upon several foraging behavior traits as a common entity. Selection in natural populations of...
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    traits had been caused by directional selection. In directional selection, a single phenotypic trait is driven by selection toward fixation in a population...
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  • heterozygotes, as with most polymorphisms. Directional selection Disruptive selection Stabilizing selection Fluctuating selection Charlesworth, Deborah; Willis, John...
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    206–234 Mueller, U., & Mazur, A. (2001). "Evidence of unconstrained directional selection for male tallness." Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 50, 302–311...
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    Directional solidification (DS) and progressive solidification are types of solidification within castings. Directional solidification is solidification...
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  • conversely, strong directional selection can modify the developmental bias to increase the phenotypic variation in the direction of selection. Developmental...
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    is a genus of copepods in the family Temoridae. Directional selection is one type of natural selection where individuals with characteristics at one end...
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  • on a population. When the function is linear, selection is directional. Directional selection favors one extreme of a trait over another. An individual...
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    The prevailing theory for the driving force of this evolution is directional selection, where efficacy on prey is selected for. Diversity in prey leads...
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    natural selection as a mechanism in evolutionary adaptation and speciation (directional selection) and species constancy or stasis (stabilizing selection) in...
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    Mann, M.E.; Cummings, M. E. (2009). "Sexual dimorphism and directional sexual selection on aposematic signals in a poison frog". PNAS. 106 (45): 19072–19077...
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  • chemistry, a selection rule, or transition rule, formally constrains the possible transitions of a system from one quantum state to another. Selection rules...
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    extinction, which may act to limit the maximum size of organisms. Directional selection appears to act on organisms' size, whereas it exhibits a far smaller...
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  • (Zea mays) in Illinois since 1896, making it the longest-running directional selection project conducted on plants and one of the longest-running experiments...
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    Culling (redirect from Culling selection)
    example, culling based on specific traits, such as size, can enforce directional selection and remove those traits from the population. This can have long-term...
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  • change (directional selection). It contains no information about how the variance in trait value is expected to change (disruptive selection). As such...
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    natural selection have continued to operate on human populations, with evidence that certain regions of the genome display directional selection in the...
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  • and one evolving under a non-random process, including directional selection or balancing selection, demographic expansion or contraction, genetic hitchhiking...
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    plants that rely on them for reproductive success. This example of directional selection leads to convergent evolution of flower size, structure, and coloring...
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