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Within-family selection in Avena fatua and A. barbata

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Twenty families each of Avena fatua and A. barbata drawn from a natural population were used for measuring the response to within-family selection for the two extremes in heading date and seed size. The estimates of the relative amounts of between- and within-family variation were interpreted in relation to the realized responses to show that A. fatua has greater genetic variability than A. barbata which, on the other hand, has more phenotypic plasticity. These results support our model on the alternative adaptive strategies in the two species discussed earlier.

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Je 20 Familien von Avena fatua und A. barbata, die aus natürlichen Populationen entnommen worden waren, wurden zur Messung der Reaktion auf intrafamiliäre Selektion auf die beiden Extreme des Schoß-Termins und der Samengröße verwendet. Die Schätzungen der relativen Beiträge der Variation zwischen und innerhalb der Familien wurden in Beziehung zu der erzielten Reaktion interpretiert, um zu zeigen, daß A. fatua eine größere genetische Variabilität und A. barbata eine größere phänotypische Plastizität als die jeweils andere Art besitzt. Die vorliegenden Ergebnisse stützen unser früher diskutiertes Modell der alternativen adaptiven Strategien in diesen beiden Spezies.

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Jain, S.K., Marshall, D.R. Within-family selection in Avena fatua and A. barbata . Theoret. Appl. Genetics 40, 73–75 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00277273

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