Resistance Gene Replacement in the Mosquito Culex pipiens: Fitness Estimation From Long-Term Cline Series
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Resistance Gene Replacement in the mosquito Culex pipiens: fitness estimation from long-term cline series.
How adaptation appears and is later refined by natural selection has been the object of intense theoretical work. However, the testing of these theories is limited by our ability to estimate the strength of natural selection in nature. Using a long-term cline series, we estimate the selection coefficients acting on different alleles at the same locus to analyze the allele replacement observed i...
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عنوان ژورنال: Genetics
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1943-2631
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.109.101444