Sexual Selection: The Weevils of Inbreeding
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چکیده
A recent study has used inbreeding depression to gain insight into the maintenance of additive genetic variation in populations, with intriguing implications for good genes models of sexual selection.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Current Biology
دوره 20 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2010