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SUBMITTER: Urban MC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3710097 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Urban Mark C MC Bürger Reinhard R Bolnick Daniel I DI
Nature communications 20130101
Evolutionary biologists typically predict future evolutionary responses to natural selection by analysing evolution on an adaptive landscape. Much theory assumes symmetric fitness surfaces even though many stabilizing selection gradients deviate from symmetry. Here we revisit Lande's adaptive landscape and introduce novel analytical theory that includes asymmetric selection. Asymmetric selection and the resulting skewed trait distributions bias equilibrium mean phenotypes away from fitness peaks ...[more]