Symmetric evolutionary games, i.e., evolutionary games with symmetric fitness matrices, have important applications in population genetics, where they can be used to model for example the selection and evolution of the genotypes of a given population. In this paper, we review the theory for obtaining optimal and stable strategies for symmetric evolutionary games, and provide some new proofs and...

Despite significant advancements in both empirical and theoretical population genetics throughout the past century, fundamental questions about the evolutionary forces that shape genomic diversity remain unresolved. Perhaps foremost among these are the strength and frequency of adaptive evolution. To quantify these parameters, statistical tools are needed that are capable of effectively identif...

POPULATION biologists have long followed gene frequency changes in model populations in attempts to verify various aspects of the mathematical theory of natural selection. The selection has been assumed to be constant in many of these studies, although it is widely recognized (e.g., TEISSIER 1954) that the selection in fact fluctuates with the physical and biological elements of the environment...

Falconer 's concept that performance in environment 2 is a different trait from performance in environment 1 allows calculation of expected response in environment 2 if selection is from environment 1. Response to selection in environment 1 and correlated response in environment 2 depend on heri tabil i ty and phenotypic variance in environment 1, genetic covariance between performance of ident...

Host genotype and gender are among the factors that influence the composition of gut microbiota. We studied the population structure of gut microbiota in two lines of chickens maintained under the same husbandry and dietary regimes. The lines, which originated from a common founder population, had undergone 54 generations of selection for high (HW) or low (LW) 56-day body weight, and now differ...

The evolution of increased competitive ability (EICA) hypothesis proposes that invasive species evolve decreased defense and increased competitive ability following natural enemy release. Previous tests of EICA examined the result of evolution by comparing individuals from home and introduced ranges, but no previous study of this hypothesis has examined the process of evolution by analyzing pat...

It is commonly thought that genotype is a property assignable exclusively to the nucleic acid genome while phenotype is a property whose assignment must be distributed among entities at many or all levels of biological organization. In evolutionary biology there is a problem of hierarchy in the theory of selection due to this requirement for distributive assignment: to which level(s) is the cau...

main objective in wheat breeding programs is to improve high yielding and stable varieties possessing desirable morpho-physiological traits. this study was conducted to determine the stability of 18 winter and facultative bread wheat genotypes. the experiments carried out in 9 experimental stations (karadj- arak- ardebil- jolgerokh- miandoab- hamedan- mashad- qazvin- khoy) using a randomized co...