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Cactus-Breeding Drosophila — A System for the Measurement of Natural Selection

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Book cover Measuring Selection in Natural Populations

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“Only by studying the ecology of natural and artificial populations can we come to understand the forces or factors that act on gene frequencies within them” (Clarke, 1975). The need for the joint consideration of population ecology and population genetics is not a new idea, but as Clarke said, the point is “so obvious and elementary that….. it has often been overlooked”. In the study of evolution, we would hope to understand, at the intra-specific level, the factors determining both the numbers of organisms and the kinds (genotypes) of organisms and the nature of any interactions between numbers and kinds (Birch, 1960). At the community level, we ask similar questions, but have to include consideration of higher-order interactions between numbers and kinds of different species.

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Barker, J.S.F. (1977). Cactus-Breeding Drosophila — A System for the Measurement of Natural Selection. In: Christiansen, F.B., Fenchel, T.M. (eds) Measuring Selection in Natural Populations. Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, vol 19. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-93071-3_24

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