Keyword

stabilizing selection

Description: An evolutionary process that favors intermediate trait values over extremes, tending to maintain a population's trait distribution around its average.

Primary topic: Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (27%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q4529558

OpenAlex ID: keywords/stabilizing-selection

Distance‐Based Tests for Homogeneity of Multivariate Dispersions

2005 · Marti J. Anderson · Biometrics · 3,273

Comparing evolvability and variability of quantitative traits.

1992 · D Houle · Genetics · 1,980

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The Strength of Phenotypic Selection in Natural Populations

2001 · J. G. Kingsolver, H. E. Hoekstra, et al. · The American Naturalist · 1,802

The Evolution of Self‐fertilization and Inbreeding Depression in Plants. I. Genetic Models

1985 · Russell Lande, Douglas W. Schemske · Evolution · 1,649

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Evolution of a Species' Range

1997 · Mark Kirkpatrick, N. H. Barton · The American Naturalist · 1,388

Stabilizing Selection and the Comparative Analysis of Adaptation

1997 · Thomas F. Hansen · Evolution · 1,386

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The Relative Rates of Evolution of Sex Chromosomes and Autosomes

1987 · B. Charlesworth, J. A. Coyne, et al. · The American Naturalist · 1,069

The Effect of Selection on Genetic Variability

1971 · M. G. Bulmer · The American Naturalist · 987

The Evolution of Predator-Prey Interactions: Theory and Evidence

2000 · Peter A. Abrams · Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics · 913

Community Assembly, Niche Conservatism, and Adaptive Evolution in Changing Environments

2003 · David D. Ackerly · International Journal of Plant Sciences · 894

Regression Analysis of Natural Selection: Statistical Inference and Biological Interpretation

1987 · Thomas Mitchell‐Olds, Ruth G. Shaw · Evolution · 868

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Facial shape and judgements of female attractiveness

1994 · D. I. Perrett, K. A May, et al. · Nature · 849

Homologues, Natural Kinds and the Evolution of Modularity

1996 · GÜNTER P. WAGNER · American Zoologist · 806

The maintenance of genetic variability by mutation in a polygenic character with linked loci

1975 · Russell Lande · Genetics Research · 786

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Estimating the Form of Natural Selection on a Quantitative Trait

1988 · Dolph Schluter · Evolution · 770

Factors of Evolution:. The Theory of Stabilizing Selection

1950 · JAMA · 765

Developmental Integration and the Evolution of Pleiotropy

1996 · JAMES M. CHEVERUD · American Zoologist · 757

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Ecological opportunity and the origin of adaptive radiations

2010 · J. B. YODER, E. CLANCEY, et al. · Journal of Evolutionary Biology · 734

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Quantitative genetics and developmental constraints on evolution by selection

1984 · James M. Cheverud · Journal of Theoretical Biology · 712

Measuring and comparing evolvability and constraint in multivariate characters

2008 · T. F. HANSEN, D. HOULE · Journal of Evolutionary Biology · 709

Mutation and Conservation

1995 · Russell Lande · Conservation Biology · 686

Modeling Stabilizing Selection: Expanding the Ornstein-uhlenbeck Model of Adaptive Evolution

2012 · Jeremy M. Beaulieu, Dwueng-Chwuan Jhwueng, et al. · Evolution · 663

Evolution and Extinction in a Changing Environment: a Quantitative‐genetic Analysis

1995 · Reinhard Bürger, Michael Lynch · Evolution · 653

Molecular Evolution and Functional Characterization of Drosophila Insulin-Like Peptides

2010 · Sebastian Grönke, David-Francis Clarke, et al. · PLoS Genetics · 650

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Female choice selects for male sexual tail ornaments in the monogamous swallow

1988 · Anders Pape Møller · Nature · 631

Works count: 3,268

Citation count: 128,100