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Directional selection

Artificial and natural selection components reveal the mechanisms of tropical sheep populations against gastrointestinal parasites

Leonardo Sartori Menegatto, Karine Assis Costa, Ricardo Dutra do Bem, Luara Afonso de Freitas, Luiza Vage Coelho Sartori, Elisa Peripolli, Nedenia Bonvino Stafuzza, Claudia Cristina Paro de Paz

published 18 Feb 2026

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Molecular adaptation in Rubisco: Discriminating between convergent evolution and positive selection using mechanistic and classical codon models

Sahar Parto, Nicolas Lartillot

published 12 Feb 2018

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Different Ultimate Factors Define Timing of Breeding in Two Related Species

Veli-Matti Pakanen, Markku Orell, Emma Vatka, Seppo Rytkönen, Juli Broggi

published 09 Sep 2016

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Analysis of Genetic Variation across the Encapsidated Genome of Microplitis demolitor Bracovirus in Parasitoid Wasps

Gaelen R. Burke

published 08 Jul 2016

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AFLPs and Mitochondrial Haplotypes Reveal Local Adaptation to Extreme Thermal Environments in a Freshwater Gastropod

María Quintela, Magnus P. Johansson, Bjarni K. Kristjánsson, Rodolfo Barreiro, Anssi Laurila

published 09 Jul 2014

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Footprints of Directional Selection in Wild Atlantic Salmon Populations: Evidence for Parasite-Driven Evolution?

Ksenia J. Zueva, Jaakko Lumme, Alexey E. Veselov, Matthew P. Kent, Sigbjørn Lien, Craig R. Primmer

published 26 Mar 2014

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Assessing Multivariate Constraints to Evolution across Ten Long-Term Avian Studies

Celine Teplitsky, Maja Tarka, Anders P. Møller, Shinichi Nakagawa, Javier Balbontín, Terry A. Burke, Claire Doutrelant, Arnaud Gregoire, Bengt Hansson, Dennis Hasselquist, Lars Gustafsson, Florentino de Lope, Alfonso Marzal, James A. Mills, Nathaniel T. Wheelwright, John W. Yarrall, Anne Charmantier

published 07 Mar 2014

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A Comparison of Inbreeding Depression in Tropical and Widespread Drosophila Species

Jesper S. Bechsgaard, Ary A. Hoffmann, Carla Sgró, Volker Loeschcke, Trine Bilde, Torsten N. Kristensen

published 27 Feb 2013

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Directional Selection Causes Decanalization in a Group I Ribozyme

Eric J. Hayden, Christian Weikert, Andreas Wagner

published 18 Sep 2012

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The Steppengrille (Gryllus spec./assimilis): Selective Filters and Signal Mismatch on Two Time Scales

Matti Michael Rothbart, Ralf Matthias Hennig

published 07 Sep 2012

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Adaptive Value of Phenological Traits in Stressful Environments: Predictions Based on Seed Production and Laboratory Natural Selection

Benjamin Brachi, Carla Aimé, Cédric Glorieux, Joel Cuguen, Fabrice Roux

published 05 Mar 2012

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The Effect of Genetic and Environmental Variation on Genital Size in Male Drosophila: Canalized but Developmentally Unstable

Austin P. Dreyer, Alexander W. Shingleton

published 08 Dec 2011

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Rampant Adaptive Evolution in Regions of Proteins with Unknown Function in Drosophila simulans

Alisha K. Holloway, David J. Begun

published 31 Oct 2007

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