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Evolutionary effects of density-dependent selection in plants

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2009

G. Namkoong,
J. Bishir and
J. H. Roberds
G. Namkoong*
Affiliation:
USDA Forest Service, Southeastern Forest Experiment Station, Genetics Department, Box 7614, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695–7614
J. Bishir
Affiliation:
Mathematics Department, North Carolina State University, Box 8205, Raleigh, NC 27695–8205
J. H. Roberds
Affiliation:
USDA Forest Service, Southeastern Forest Experiment Station, Genetics Department, Box 7614, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695–7614
*
* Corresponding author.
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The evolution of traits that affect genotypic responses to density regulated resources can be strongly affected by population dynamics in ways that are unpredictable from individual viability or reproduction potentials. Genotypes that are most efficient in utilizing energy may not always displace less efficient ones, and the evolution of energy allocation strategies may not always favour reproductive fitness because of their effects on destabilizing population growth rates. Furthermore, genetic polymorphisms in single loci that affect such traits can be maintained in populations with stable, periodic changes in population size and gene frequencies in the absence of heterozygote superiority. In fact, in the models investigated in this paper, the polymorphism is maintained, even in the absence of equilibrium genotypic frequencies.

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Research Article
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Genetics Research , Volume 62 , Issue 1 , August 1993, pp. 57 - 62
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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