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SUBMITTER: Frere CH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2993384 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Frère Celine H CH Krützen Michael M Mann Janet J Connor Richard C RC Bejder Lars L Sherwin William B WB
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20101101 46
The evolutionary forces that drive fitness variation in species are of considerable interest. Despite this, the relative importance and interactions of genetic and social factors involved in the evolution of fitness traits in wild mammalian populations are largely unknown. To date, a few studies have demonstrated that fitness might be influenced by either social factors or genes in natural populations, but none have explored how the combined effect of social and genetic parameters might interact ...[more]