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SUBMITTER: Griswold CK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4344153 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20150301 1802
A fundamental goal of the biological sciences is to determine processes that facilitate the evolution of diversity. These processes can be separated into ecological, physiological, developmental and genetic. An ecological process that facilitates diversification is frequency-dependent selection caused by competition. Models of frequency-dependent adaptive diversification have generally assumed a genetic basis of phenotype that is non-epistatic. Here, we present a model that indicates diversifica ...[more]