In population genetics, directional selection is a type of natural selection in which one extreme phenotype is favored over both the other extreme and...

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...

of its effect on allele frequencies: directional, stabilizing, and disruptive selection. Directional selection occurs when an allele has a greater fitness...

variation found in a population. Stabilizing selection is the most common form of nonlinear selection (non-directional) in humans. There are few examples of...

Disruptive selection. Character displacement Balancing selection Directional selection Negative selection (natural selection) Stabilizing selection Sympatric...

2. Truncation and Threshold Selection" Crow 2010, "On epistasis: why it is unimportant in polygenic directional selection" Visscher et al. 2008, "Heritability...

A selection limit is a term from animal breeding and quantitative genetics that refers to a cessation of progress even when continued directional selection...

Balancing selection Directional selection Disruptive selection Dysgenics Fluctuating selection Genetic purging Koinophilia Mutation–selection balance Stabilizing...

of selection dynamics: negative frequency-dependent selection when a rare allele has a selective advantage; heterozygote advantage; and directional selection...

bees are the result of a directional selection that acts upon several foraging behavior traits as a common entity. Selection in natural populations of...

evolutionary processes including, but not limited to, bottlenecks, directional selection, and higher rates of mutation resulting in evolutionary trajectories...

individuals. This suggests a rather general explanation for altruism. Directional selection always favours those with higher rates of fecundity within a certain...

traits had been caused by directional selection. In directional selection, a single phenotypic trait is driven by selection toward fixation in a population...

206–234 Mueller, U., & Mazur, A. (2001). "Evidence of unconstrained directional selection for male tallness." Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 50, 302–311...

on a population. When the function is linear, selection is directional. Directional selection favors one extreme of a trait over another. An individual...

conversely, strong directional selection can modify the developmental bias to increase the phenotypic variation in the direction of selection. Developmental...

heterozygotes, as with most polymorphisms. Directional selection Disruptive selection Stabilizing selection Fluctuating selection Charlesworth, Deborah; Willis, John...

Directional solidification (DS) and progressive solidification are types of solidification within castings. Directional solidification is solidification...

The prevailing theory for the driving force of this evolution is directional selection, where efficacy on prey is selected for. Diversity in prey leads...

is a genus of copepods in the family Temoridae. Directional selection is one type of natural selection where individuals with characteristics at one end...

chemistry, a selection rule, or transition rule, formally constrains the possible transitions of a system from one quantum state to another. Selection rules...

change (directional selection). It contains no information about how the variance in trait value is expected to change (disruptive selection). As such...

choice should lead to directional runaway selection, resulting in a greater prevalence for the selected traits. Stronger selection should lead to impaired...

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...

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...

and one evolving under a non-random process, including directional selection or balancing selection, demographic expansion or contraction, genetic hitchhiking...

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...

natural selection as a mechanism in evolutionary adaptation and speciation (directional selection) and species constancy or stasis (stabilizing selection) in...

natural selection have continued to operate on human populations, with evidence that certain regions of the genome display directional selection in the...

each other. Skin pigmentation was also found to be affected by directional selection towards darker skin among Africans, as well as lighter skin among...