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SUBMITTER: Nguyen TT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4488368 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nguyen Trinh T X TT Moehring Amanda J AJ
PloS one 20150630 6
Fitness is an individual's ability to survive and reproduce, and is an important concept in evolutionary biology. However, accurately measuring fitness is often difficult, and appropriate fitness surrogates need to be identified. Lifetime reproductive success, the total progeny an organism can produce in their lifetime, is thought to be a suitable proxy for fitness, but the measure of an organism's reproductive output across a lifetime can be difficult or impossible to obtain. Here we demonstrat ...[more]