Stabilizing selection (not to be confused with negative or purifying selection) is a type of natural selection in which the population mean stabilizes...

identified it as a type of natural selection along with stabilizing selection and disruptive selection. These types of selection also operate by favoring a specific...

"Stabilizing selection and its place among factors of evolution" in 1941 and a monograph Factors of Evolution: The Theory of Stabilizing Selection in...

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

Darwin did not see the role of natural selection in species conformity or what is now called stabilizing selection. This was not corrected in editions subsequent...

acts, by the unit of selection, or by the resource being competed for. Selection has different effects on traits. Stabilizing selection acts to hold a trait...

Dysgenics Fluctuating selection Genetic purging Koinophilia Mutation–selection balance Stabilizing selection Loewe L (2008). "Negative selection". Nature Education...

generation. When the relationship is quadratic, selection may be stabilizing or disruptive. Stabilizing selection reduces variation in a trait within a population...

idea of stabilizing selection is that of the requirement that organisms function adequately in their environment. Thus, where stabilizing selection acts...

mistakenly declared as an absence of evolution, but they are examples of stabilizing selection, which is an evolutionary process—and perhaps the dominant process...

the effects of stabilizing selection as it may be "an important counter force against the evolution of modularity". Stabilizing selection, if ubiquitously...

evolutionary biologist of German descent. He developed the theory of stabilizing selection, and took part in the development of the modern evolutionary synthesis...

directional selection. In directional selection, a single phenotypic trait is driven by selection toward fixation in a population. In contrast, in stabilizing selection...

(November 1979). "Excursions along the Interface between Disruptive and Stabilizing Selection". Genetics. 93 (3): 773–795. doi:10.1093/genetics/93.3.773. PMC 1214112...

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

theory – species – speciation – species flock – sperm competition – stabilizing selection – strain (biology) – subspecies – survival of the fittest – symbiogenesis...

mechanisms which have been suggested include: habitat tracking, stabilizing selection, the Stenseth-Maynard Smith stability hypothesis, constraints imposed...

known as stabilizing selection. Researchers hypothesize that female selection rather than predator avoidance has accounted for this stabilizing effect....

been a higher preference for tail-first births caused by strong stabilizing selection for this trait much earlier in the evolutionary history of every...

species complex in the echinoid Echinocardium cordatum and rule out a stabilizing selection explanation. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Volume 94, Part...

Emerson JJ, Cardoso-Moreira M, Borevitz JO, Long M (June 2008). "Natural selection shapes genome-wide patterns of copy-number polymorphism in Drosophila...

reduced stabilizing selection phenotypic diversity can also increase. In addition, intraspecific competition will increase, promoting divergent selection to...

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

S2CID 40390753 B. S. Grant; L. E. Mettler (1969), "Disruptive and stabilizing selection on the" escape" behavior of Drosophila melanogaster", Genetics,...

jungle crows as predators. Interestingly, predation might act as a stabilizing selection pressure acting against the exaggeration and excessive evolution/propagation...

environmental pressures to change course. This phenomenon, which he calls "stabilizing selection," puts genes and environment on a par in secondary importance compared...

selection Directional selection Balancing selection Disruptive selection Negative selection (natural selection) Stabilizing selection Haldane, J. B. S.;...

explanations for this preference. Worthham, et al. (2018) propose that stabilizing selection (preference for people with normal appearances) may be responsible...

2011). "Stabilizing selection maintains exuberant colour polymorphism in the spider Theridion californicum (Araneae, Theridiidae): SELECTION MAINTAINS...

species comes to fit its surroundings better and better, resulting in stabilizing selection. On the other hand, it may happen that changes in the environment...