Weak selection in evolutionary biology is when individuals with different phenotypes possess similar fitness, i.e. one phenotype is weakly preferred over...
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In nuclear physics and particle physics, the weak interaction, also called the weak force, is one of the four known fundamental interactions, with the...
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Inbreeding depression (section Natural selection)
influence, which can cause the fixation of sublethal alleles under weak selection. The fixation of a single allele for a specific gene can also reduce...
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some form. However, natural selection remained controversial as a mechanism, partly because it was perceived to be too weak to explain the range of observed...
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Many variants on these models have been developed, which incorporate weak selection, mutual population structure, stochasticity, etc. These models have...
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phenotype. This assumption of small mutational steps (otherwise known as δ-weak selection) is often made on the basis of Fisher's geometric model and underpins...
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February 2015 until June 2021. He served as the Minister of Housing, Weaker Selection Housing Programmes in N. Kiran Kumar Reddy's ministry. Uttam Kumar...
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introduced by Motoo Kimura in 1965 as an approximation in the case of weak selection and weak epistasis. Largely as a result of Fisher's feud with the American...
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External fertilization (section Sexual selection)
male will fertilize any of the eggs. Broadcast spawners have a very weak selection, due to the randomness of releasing gametes. To look into the effect...
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visibly weak or ill, were ineligible for "selection" and were summarily murdered. In addition to the initial selection upon arrival, subsequent selections would...
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