• Genetics Selection Evolution (known as GSE, and abbreviated with Genet. Sel. Evol.) is a bimonthly online-only peer-reviewed scientific journal covers...
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    Natural selection is the differential survival and reproduction of individuals due to differences in phenotype. It is a key mechanism of evolution, the change...
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  • Population genetics began as a reconciliation of Mendelian inheritance and biostatistics models. Natural selection will only cause evolution if there is...
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    2008). "Frequency-Dependent Selection and the Evolution of Assortative Mating". Genetics. 179 (4): 2091–2112. doi:10.1534/genetics.107.084418. PMC 2516082...
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  • Ecological genetics is the study of genetics in natural populations. It combines ecology, evolution, and genetics to understand the processes behind adaptation...
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  • gene-centered view of evolution, gene's eye view, gene selection theory, or selfish gene theory holds that adaptive evolution occurs through the differential...
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  • backgrounds. Natural selection tends to make alleles with higher fitness more common over time, resulting in Darwinian evolution. The term "Darwinian...
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    Mutationism is one of several alternatives to evolution by natural selection that have existed both before and after the publication of Charles Darwin's...
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    of the processes of evolution. Dobzhansky's 1937 work Genetics and the Origin of Species helped bridge the gap between genetics and field biology by...
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    strategy. In r/K selection theory, selective pressures are hypothesised to drive evolution in one of two generalized directions: r- or K-selection. These terms...
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  • Genetic drift (category Population genetics)
    natural selection versus neutral processes, including genetic drift. Ronald Fisher, who explained natural selection using Mendelian genetics, held the...
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    Synthesis. The synthesis combined the ideas of natural selection, Mendelian genetics, and population genetics. It also related the broad-scale macroevolution...
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  • popularized the work of population genetics to other biologists and influenced their appreciation for the genetic basis of evolution. In his book, Dobzhansky applied...
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  • for many cases of evolution due to selection, an important concept in the modern synthesis of Darwin's theory with Mendelian genetics. The papers were...
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  • of natural selection distinct from that of evolution, and that the then-recent advances in the field of genetics (see history of genetics) now allowed...
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    to organisms' evolution. Gregor Mendel, a Moravian Augustinian friar working in the 19th century in Brno, was the first to study genetics scientifically...
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    integration of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection with Gregor Mendel's theory of genetics. It mostly refers to evolutionary theory...
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    and Evolution and Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics. The journals Genetics and PLoS Genetics overlap with molecular genetics questions...
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  • Molecular evolution is the basis of phylogenetic approaches to describing the tree of life. Molecular evolution overlaps with population genetics, especially...
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  • can be achieved on the population genetics level, with as little as a single point mutation being the unit of selection. In such a case, carriers of the...
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    Population genetics – Subfield of genetics Process Mutation – Alteration in the nucleotide sequence of a genome Selection – Mechanism of evolution by differential...
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    Merino-derived sheep breeds: a genome-wide intercontinental study". Genetics Selection Evolution. 47 (1): 64. doi:10.1186/s12711-015-0139-z. PMC 4536749. PMID 26272467...
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    that mathematical models that combined natural selection with Mendelian genetics could explain evolution – an effort that played a key role in the foundation...
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    In population genetics, directional selection is a type of natural selection in which one extreme phenotype is favored over both the other extreme and...
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    integrated natural selection with Mendelian genetics, which was the critical first step in developing a unified theory of how evolution worked. In the early...
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  • known of modern genetics. The union of traditional Darwinian evolution with subsequent discoveries in classical and molecular genetics is termed the modern...
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  • Re-examination of Darwinism". It was influential in the founding of population genetics and the modern synthesis. It contains the following chapters: Introduction...
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    D.P Sponenberg and M.C. Weise, "Dominant black in horses" in Genetics Selection Evolution, Department of Biosciences and Pathobiology, Virginia-Maryland...
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    Some who came to accept evolution, but disliked natural selection, raised religious objections. Others felt that evolution was an inherently progressive...
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    using pedigree data: Examples in dog, sheep, cattle and horse". Genetics Selection Evolution. 45 (1): 1. doi:10.1186/1297-9686-45-1. ISSN 1297-9686. PMC 3599586...
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