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SELECTION ON VARIANCE‐CONTROLLING GENES: ADAPTABILITY OR STABILITY
Author(s) -
Pettersson Mats E.,
Nelson Ronald M.,
Carlborg Örjan
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
evolution
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.84
H-Index - 199
eISSN - 1558-5646
pISSN - 0014-3820
DOI - 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01753.x
Subject(s) - biology , locus (genetics) , adaptability , selection (genetic algorithm) , effector , variance (accounting) , evolutionary biology , genetics , stabilizing selection , disruptive selection , gene , natural selection , genetic variation , ecology , computer science , machine learning , accounting , business , microbiology and biotechnology
Simulations on a model system where a variance‐controlling master locus scales the effects of a set of effector loci show that selection affects the variance‐controlling locus more strongly than the effector loci, and that the direction of selection is dependent on the frequency of environmental changes.