Equation 1 · Comparing the Main Approaches to Evolutionary Biology and Ecology
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A basic model of directional selection acting on a single locus, of the kind both the field and laboratory results above are ultimately interpreted against, describes how an allele’s frequency changes by one generation under a constant selection coefficient s favoring the allele at frequency p :
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- [3] E. coli long-term evolution experiment ↗
- [4] Historical contingency and the evolution of a key innovation in an experimental population of Escherichia coli ↗
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