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来源类型 | Monograph (IIASA Interim Report) |
规范类型 | 报告 |
Standardizing selection strengths to study selection in the wild: A critical comparison and suggestions for the future. | |
Matsumura S; Arlinghaus R; Dieckmann U | |
发表日期 | 2012 |
出版者 | IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: IR-12-051 |
出版年 | 2012 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | We critically review the main approaches for standardizing and comparing selection differentials and gradients among traits, populations, and species and assess their differential merits. In particular, we explain why the most widespread approach to standardizing selection, which measures selection differentials in units of a trait's phenotypic standard deviation, is less appropriate for characterizing strengths of natural selection in wild populations. In contrast, an alternative standardization approach, which uses a trait's phenotypic mean in addition to its standard deviation, results in another dimensionless measure - the mean-standardized selection gradient. This measure offers some key benefits over alternative approaches - such as ease of interpretation, independence of a trait's variance, and the natural interfacing of ecological and evolutionary dynamics - and yet remains rarely used by evolutionary biologists. We explain how the more routine application of this measure will facilitate comparisons of selection strengths in the wild among traits, populations, and species. |
主题 | Evolution and Ecology (EEP) |
URL | http://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/10224/ |
来源智库 | International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (Austria) |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/125864 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Matsumura S,Arlinghaus R,Dieckmann U. Standardizing selection strengths to study selection in the wild: A critical comparison and suggestions for the future.. 2012. |
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