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Isofemale Strains and Evolutionary Strategies in Natural Populations

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Evolutionary Biology

Abstract

Phenotypic variation is continuous in the vast majority of assayable situations, in spite of the impression gained from classical genetic and, more recently, electrophoretic studies stressing discontinuities. Even alleles that are effectively discrete at the molecular level contribute to quantitative variation at “higher” phenotypic levels. Because there has been strong emphasis upon the study of one or a few loci where allelic substitutions have easily measurable effects, it is not surprising that our understanding of the nature and function of specific genes determining the genetic component of continuous variation is still poorly understood (Thompson and Thoday, 1979). This forms a major problem for our unravelling of underlying evolutionary strategies controlling such variation in natural populations.

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