In addition to prey size, the temporal availability of prey may favor selection for gigantism in insular snakes.
Temporal heterogeneity favors natural selection for generalist genotypes, while heterogeneity across sites favors selection for LA, assuming restricted gene flow (Kassen 2002).
Previously we proposed that an agent other than Bt cotton may favor selection for alleles conferring resistance to Cry2Ab in Helicoverpa species (Mahon et al. 2007a).
These factors made survival a larger determinant of fitness in Norway, favoring selection for longer shoot vegetative stages such as seen in Spiterstulen genotypes.
It is tempting to speculate that the important antigenic potential of pilins (Nassif et al. 1993; Miller et al. 2014) might frequently favor selection for comP loss in host-associated bacteria.
Quasispecies theory, although often invoked as a synonym for genetic diversity, generally argues against the maintenance of substantial phenotypic diversity, as the inevitable coupling of mutational neighbors should ultimately favor selection for canalized populations which exhibit phenotypic stability in the face of mutational change [ 6- 8].
Also, during the Sanger sequencing procedure there is a cloning step involved in library construction, which favors selection for higher copy number transcripts, resulting in redundancy in annotated sequences and a lower number of unannotated sequences as well as poor sampling of single-copy sequences.
There are some limitations for some of these measures, for example, FIC favors selection of markers that are closer to fixation in one parental population and may not be appropriate to assess the level of informative markers when ancestral populations are more than two [ 32].
We analyze a general two-sex model to show that selection favors survival for as long as men reproduce.
One possible rationale is that the transfer of functional demands to the higher level renders many part types at the lower level useless, and thus their loss in evolution is favored by selection for economy.
The coordinated trait sensitivities are properties of development that may have been favored by selection; for example, because it is important for fitness that traits change in concert.
