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Disruptive Selection

Disruptive Selection is a type of natural selection that favors extreme phenotypes over intermediate variants, thereby increasing phenotypic variance and potentially driving polymorphism within a population.

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Diversifying Selection

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The Effect of Selection on Genetic Variability

M. G. Bulmer · The American Naturalist · 1971 · 1K citations

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ESTIMATING THE FORM OF NATURAL SELECTION ON A QUANTITATIVE TRAIT

Dolph Schluter · Evolution · 1988 · 766 citations

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Disruptive selection for alternative life histories in salmon

Mart R. Gross · Nature · 1985 · 613 citations

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VISUALIZING MULTIVARIATE SELECTION

Patrick C. Phillips, Stevan J. Arnold · Evolution · 1989 · 561 citations · Full text

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Colour polymorphism in birds: causes and functions

Paolo Galeotti, Diego Rubolini, Peter O. Dunn et al. · Journal of Evolutionary Biology · 2003 · 357 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. JM
    J. M. Thoday

    University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

    12 publications · 751 citations

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  2. WS
    W. Scharloo

    Utrecht University, Netherlands

    7 publications · 189 citations

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  3. WR
    William R. Rice

    University of California, Santa Barbara, United States

    5 publications · 477 citations

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  4. JB
    John B. Gibson

    Australian National University, Australia

    5 publications · 322 citations

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  5. MK
    Michael Kopp

    University of Vienna, Austria

    3 publications · 190 citations

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Institutions

153

  1. University of British Columbia

    Vancouver, Canada

    6 h-index

    7 publications

    998 citations

  2. University of Sheffield

    Sheffield, United Kingdom

    6 h-index

    8 publications

    526 citations

  3. Leiden University

    Leiden, The Netherlands

    6 h-index

    7 publications

    240 citations

  4. University of Vienna

    Vienna, Austria

    5 h-index

    9 publications

    436 citations

  5. University of California, Davis

    Davis, United States

    5 h-index

    7 publications

    991 citations

  6. International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

    Laxenburg, Austria

    5 h-index

    6 publications

    189 citations

  7. University of Groningen

    Groningen, The Netherlands

    5 h-index

    8 publications

    216 citations

  8. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    5 h-index

    10 publications

    687 citations

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  1. Evolution

    31 publications · 2.8K citations

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  2. The American Naturalist

    AN · 19 publications · 2.4K citations

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  3. Genetics

    15 publications · 702 citations

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  4. Heredity

    12 publications · 666 citations

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  5. Nature

    7 publications · 1.2K citations

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