Frequency‐dependent selection: a diversifying force in microbial populations
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Frequency‐dependent selection: a diversifying force in microbial populations
The benefits of “bet-hedging” strategies have been assumed to be the main cause of phenotypic diversity in biological populations. However, in their recent work, Healey et al (2016) provide experimental support for negative frequency-dependent selection (NFDS) as an alternative driving force of diversity. NFDS favors rare phenotypes over common ones, resulting in an evolutionarily stable mixtur...
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عنوان ژورنال: Molecular Systems Biology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1744-4292,1744-4292
DOI: 10.15252/msb.20167133