Temporally varying disruptive selection in the medium ground finch (Geospiza fortis).

ABSTRACT: Disruptive natural selection within populations exploiting different resources is considered to be a major driver of adaptive radiation and the production of biodiversity. Fitness functions, which describe the relationships between trait variation and fitness, can help to illuminate how this disruptive selection leads to population differentiation. However, a single fitness function represents only a particular selection regime over a single specified time period (often a single season or a year), and therefore might not capture longer-term dynamics. Here, we build a series of annual fitness functions that quantify the relationships between phenotype and apparent survival. These functions are based on a 9-year mark-recapture dataset of over 600 medium ground finches (Geospiza fortis

SUBMITTER: Beausoleil MO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6939253 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature