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SUBMITTER: Coulson T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1560056 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Coulson T T Benton T G TG Lundberg P P Dall S R X SR Kendall B E BE Gaillard J-M JM
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20060301 1586
Ecological and evolutionary change is generated by variation in individual performance. Biologists have consequently long been interested in decomposing change measured at the population level into contributions from individuals, the traits they express and the alleles they carry. We present a novel method of estimating individual contributions to population growth and changes in distributions of quantitative traits and alleles. An individual's contribution to population growth is an individual' ...[more]