Establishment in a new habitat by polygenic adaptation

Maladapted individuals can only colonise a new habitat if they can evolve a positive growth rate fast enough to avoid extinction, a process known as evolutionary rescue. We treat log fitness at low density in the new habitat as a single polygenic trait and use the infinitesimal model to follow the e...

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Main Authors: Barton, N, Etheridge, A
Format: Journal article
Published: Elsevier 2017

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