In our model selection experiment, the true model received considerable support by the data in a comparison of delta AIC values, but was not selected as the AIC best model when ranked against all other candidate models.
Nonetheless, we did not previously include the VLPFC, and this, along with a larger model space selection, may have led to different model selection across experiments (72 74).
We present a method to use samples from simulated predictive distributions for selecting experiments useful for model selection.
The only difference in model selection in the topcross experiments was the testing of random set, group within set, and block within group effects in addition to other fixed and random effects tested in the inbred models.
Second, the MICs for most commonly used antibiotics, such as the 3rd cephalosporins, aminoglycosides, carbapenems and fluoroquinolones, are still susceptible; thus, A. baumannii ATCC 17978 would be a model candidate for antibiotic selection experiments.
Ear rot data from the 2011/2012 topcross experiments were analyzed using the same model selection protocol as the inbred experiments.
Bringing together a mix of the common tools used in evolutionary biology, potentially including multilevel measurement of selection, adaptive arguments based on functional traits, modelling of evolutionary processes, selection experiments, comparison of populations and species, manipulation of traits and measurement of plasticity will be needed.
As a consequence, there is an urgent need to perform multigeneration population-based selection experiments with model species to tackle conservation-relevant questions.
Similar findings have been reported in model species used in laboratory selection experiments (e.g. Atlantic silversides, Menidia menidia Munch et al. 2005; guppies, Poecilia reticulata Reznick and Ghalambor 2005).
In classical statistics, ensemble non-centrality constitutes the reference technique to design experiments for model selection (Atkinson and Fedorov, 1975; Ponce De Leon and Atkinson, 1991; Skanda and Lebiedz, 2012).
