Immigration counter‐acts local micro‐evolution of a major fitness component: Migration‐selection balance in free‐living song sparrows
Abstract Ongoing adaptive evolution, and resulting “evolutionary rescue” of declining populations, requires additive genetic variation in fitness. Such variation can be increased by gene flow resulting from immigration, potentially facilitating evolution. But, gene flow could in fact constrain rathe...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2021-02-01
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Series: | Evolution Letters |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1002/evl3.214 |