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balancing selection
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Definition
Selection that maintains multiple alleles in a population at frequencies above those expected from mutation alone
Related Terms (2)
balancingselective maintenance
Publications (16)
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Increasing aridity may threaten the maintenance of a plant defence polymorphism
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Evidence for a single, ancient origin of a genus-wide alternative life history strategy
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Genetic mechanisms underlying maladaptation in specialized species interactions
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The Boechera model system for evolutionary ecology
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Selection of floral traits by pollinators and seed predators during sequential life history stages
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Ecological factors influence balancing selection on leaf chemical profiles of a wildflower
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Bigger is not always better: Viability selection on body mass varies across life stages in a hibernating mammal
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Birds Perceive More Intraspecific Color Variation in Bird-Pollinated Than Bee-Pollinated Flowers
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Ecological contexts of balancing selection in nature
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Ecological contexts of balancing selection in nature
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Integrating viability and fecundity selection to illuminate the adaptive nature of genetic clines
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Floral pigmentation patterns provide an example of Gloger’s rule in plants
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A genetic polymorphism evolving in parallel in two cell compartments and in two clades
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Ecological causes and consequences of flower color polymorphism in <i>Boechera stricta</i>
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Age effects on yellow-bellied marmot <i> (Marmota flaviventris)</i> maximum running speed
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