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Dominance modification in a fluctuating environment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2009

Brian Charlesworth  and
Deborah Charlesworth
Brian Charlesworth
Affiliation:
School of Biological Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QG, U.K.
Deborah Charlesworth
Affiliation:
School of Biological Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QG, U.K.
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This paper examines the suggestion of Gale & Mackay (1979) that dominance modification will be slower in an environment with fluctuating selection coefficients than in a constant environment. The case of statistical independence between successive environments is studied. It is shown that there is an effect in the suggested direction, but that it is quantitatively slight with biologically plausible values for the parameters involved. It therefore seems unlikely that the phenomena noted by Charlesworth (1979) can be explained in these terms.

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Research Article
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Genetics Research , Volume 34 , Issue 3 , December 1979 , pp. 281 - 285
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1979

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