Bigger Is Fitter? Quantitative Genetic Decomposition of Selection Reveals an Adaptive Evolutionary Decline of Body Mass in a Wild Rodent Population.

PLoS Biol · 2017 · PMC5268405 · PMID 28125583

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Contrary to the predicted evolutionary increase in body mass, this estimate of genetic change in mass is strongly negative and highly significant ( p MCMC < 0.001; Fig 1 GCPE, genetic change Price equation).

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