Balancing selection via life-history trade-offs maintains an inversion polymorphism in a seaweed fly

Few studies empirically pinpoint how balanced polymorphisms are maintained. “Mérot et al”. identify an inversion polymorphism that is maintained in seaweed fly populations because of antagonistic pleiotropy that mediates a classic life history tradeoff between larval survival and adult reproduction....

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Main Authors: Claire Mérot, Violaine Llaurens, Eric Normandeau, Louis Bernatchez, Maren Wellenreuther
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2020
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/ecfedbcfec734b9b8c98bd2e2e24b254
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