Virulence in clonal plants: conflicting selection pressures at work?
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Conflicting selection pressures and life history trade-offs
We review studies of natural selection in wild populations in which selection has acted in opposite directions at different stages of the life history. For example, the phenotype with highest probability of survival may have the lowest reproductive success. We discuss two important implications of these findings. First, measurements of opposing selection confirm that evolution of traits is gove...
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عنوان ژورنال: Evolutionary Ecology
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0269-7653,1573-8477
DOI: 10.1007/s10682-007-9206-4