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Faurie, Charlotte, and Michel Raymond. "Handedness, homicide and negative frequency-dependent selection." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 272, no. 1558 (2004): 25–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2004.2926.

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Turner, Caroline B., Sean W. Buskirk, Katrina B. Harris, and Vaughn S. Cooper. "Negative frequency‐dependent selection maintains coexisting genotypes during fluctuating selection." Molecular Ecology 29, no. 1 (2019): 138–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mec.15307.

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Takahashi, Yuma, and Masakado Kawata. "A comprehensive test for negative frequency-dependent selection." Population Ecology 55, no. 3 (2013): 499–509. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10144-013-0372-7.

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Bravo, Ignacio. "Unmasking the delusive appearance of negative frequency-dependent selection." Peer Community in Evolutionary Biology, no. 2 (July 5, 2017): 100024. http://dx.doi.org/10.24072/pci.evolbiol.100024.

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Erikson, Philippe. "YANOMAMO HANDEDNESS, HOMICIDE AND ALLEGED NEGATIVE FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT SELECTION." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 11, no. 4 (2005): 837–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9655.2005.00264.x.

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Luttikhuizen, Pieternella C. "Teaching evolution using a card game: negative frequency-dependent selection." Journal of Biological Education 52, no. 2 (2018): 122–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00219266.2017.1420677.

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Forti, Isabela Rodrigues Nogueira, and Robert John Young. "Human Commercial Models’ Eye Colour Shows Negative Frequency-Dependent Selection." PLOS ONE 11, no. 12 (2016): e0168458. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0168458.

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Smithson, Ann, and Mark R. MacNair. "Negative Frequency-Dependent Selection by Pollinators on Artificial Flowers Without Rewards." Evolution 51, no. 3 (1997): 715. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2411148.

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Kilgour, R. Julia, Andrew G. McAdam, Gustavo S. Betini, and D. Ryan Norris. "Experimental evidence that density mediates negative frequency-dependent selection on aggression." Journal of Animal Ecology 87, no. 4 (2018): 1091–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12813.

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Takahashi, Yuma, Jin Yoshimura, Satoru Morita, and Mamoru Watanabe. "NEGATIVE FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT SELECTION IN FEMALE COLOR POLYMORPHISM OF A DAMSELFLY." Evolution 64, no. 12 (2010): 3620–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2010.01083.x.

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Mokkonen, M., H. Kokko, E. Koskela, et al. "Negative Frequency-Dependent Selection of Sexually Antagonistic Alleles in Myodes glareolus." Science 334, no. 6058 (2011): 972–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1208708.

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Smithson, Ann, and Mark R. Macnair. "NEGATIVE FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT SELECTION BY POLLINATORS ON ARTIFICIAL FLOWERS WITHOUT REWARDS." Evolution 51, no. 3 (1997): 715–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.1997.tb03655.x.

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Kazancıoğlu, Erem, and Göran Arnqvist. "The maintenance of mitochondrial genetic variation by negative frequency-dependent selection." Ecology Letters 17, no. 1 (2013): 22–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.12195.

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Janif, Zinnia J., Robert C. Brooks, and Barnaby J. Dixson. "Negative frequency-dependent preferences and variation in male facial hair." Biology Letters 10, no. 4 (2014): 20130958. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2013.0958.

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Negative frequency-dependent sexual selection maintains striking polymorphisms in secondary sexual traits in several animal species. Here, we test whether frequency of beardedness modulates perceived attractiveness of men's facial hair, a secondary sexual trait subject to considerable cultural variation. We first showed participants a suite of faces, within which we manipulated the frequency of beard thicknesses and then measured preferences for four standard levels of beardedness. Women and men judged heavy stubble and full beards more attractive when presented in treatments where beards were

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Dijkstra, Peter D., and Shana E. Border. "How does male–male competition generate negative frequency-dependent selection and disruptive selection during speciation?" Current Zoology 64, no. 1 (2018): 89–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cz/zox079.

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Weeks, Andrew R., and Ary A. Hoffmann. "Frequency-dependent selection maintains clonal diversity in an asexual organism." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105, no. 46 (2008): 17872–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0806039105.

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Asexual organisms can be genetically variable and evolve through time, yet it is not known how genetic diversity is maintained in populations. In sexual organisms, negative frequency-dependent selection plays a role in maintaining diversity at some loci, but in asexual organisms, this mechanism could provide a general explanation for persistent genetic diversity because it acts on the whole genome and not just on some polymorphisms within a genome. Using field manipulations, we show that negative frequency-dependent selection maintains clonal diversity in an asexual mite species, and we link p

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Goldberg, Jay K., Curtis M. Lively, Sonya R. Sternlieb, et al. "Herbivore‐mediated negative frequency‐dependent selection underlies a trichome dimorphism in nature." Evolution Letters 4, no. 1 (2020): 83–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/evl3.157.

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Minter, Ewan J. A., Phillip C. Watts, Chris D. Lowe, and Michael A. Brockhurst. "Negative frequency-dependent selection is intensified at higher population densities in protist populations." Biology Letters 11, no. 6 (2015): 20150192. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2015.0192.

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Natural populations of free-living protists often exhibit high-levels of intraspecific diversity, yet this is puzzling as classic evolutionary theory predicts dominance by genotypes with high fitness, particularly in large populations where selection is efficient. Here, we test whether negative frequency-dependent selection (NFDS) plays a role in the maintenance of diversity in the marine flagellate Oxyrrhis marina using competition experiments between multiple pairs of strains. We observed strain-specific responses to frequency and density, but an overall signature of NFDS that was intensifie

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Horth, Lisa, and Iordanka N. Panayotova. "Simulating the maintenance of a rare fish morph experiencing negative frequency dependent selection." Biosystems 110, no. 3 (2012): 149–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2012.08.005.

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Chouteau, Mathieu, Violaine Llaurens, Florence Piron-Prunier, and Mathieu Joron. "Polymorphism at a mimicry supergene maintained by opposing frequency-dependent selection pressures." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114, no. 31 (2017): 8325–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1702482114.

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Explaining the maintenance of adaptive diversity within populations is a long-standing goal in evolutionary biology, with important implications for conservation, medicine, and agriculture. Adaptation often leads to the fixation of beneficial alleles, and therefore it erodes local diversity so that understanding the coexistence of multiple adaptive phenotypes requires deciphering the ecological mechanisms that determine their respective benefits. Here, we show how antagonistic frequency-dependent selection (FDS), generated by natural and sexual selection acting on the same trait, maintains mim

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Sato, Yasuhiro, and Hiroshi Kudoh. "Herbivore-Mediated Interaction Promotes the Maintenance of Trichome Dimorphism through Negative Frequency-Dependent Selection." American Naturalist 190, no. 3 (2017): E67—E77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/692603.

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Christie, Mark R., Gordon G. McNickle, Rod A. French, and Michael S. Blouin. "Life history variation is maintained by fitness trade-offs and negative frequency-dependent selection." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115, no. 17 (2018): 4441–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1801779115.

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The maintenance of diverse life history strategies within and among species remains a fundamental question in ecology and evolutionary biology. By using a near-complete 16-year pedigree of 12,579 winter-run steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) from the Hood River, Oregon, we examined the continued maintenance of two life history traits: the number of lifetime spawning events (semelparous vs. iteroparous) and age at first spawning (2–5 years). We found that repeat-spawning fish had more than 2.5 times the lifetime reproductive success of single-spawning fish. However, first-time repeat-spawning fish

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Hoy, Sarah R., Daniel R. MacNulty, Matthew C. Metz, et al. "Negative frequency-dependent prey selection by wolves and its implications on predator–prey dynamics." Animal Behaviour 179 (September 2021): 247–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.06.025.

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Judson, Olivia P. "Preserving genes: a model of the maintenance of genetic variation in a metapopulation under frequency-dependent selection." Genetical Research 65, no. 3 (1995): 175–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0016672300033267.

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SummaryUnderstanding how genetic variability is maintained in natural populations is of both theoretical and practical interest. In particular, the subdivision of populations into demes linked by low levels of migration has been suggested to play an important role. But the maintenance of genetic variation in populations is also often linked to the maintenance of sexual reproduction: any force that acts to maintain sex should also act to maintain variation. One theory for the maintenance of sex, the Red Queen, states that sex and variation are maintained by antagonistic coevolutionary interacti

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Villanea, Fernando A., Kristin N. Safi, and Jeremiah W. Busch. "A General Model of Negative Frequency Dependent Selection Explains Global Patterns of Human ABO Polymorphism." PLOS ONE 10, no. 5 (2015): e0125003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0125003.

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Iserbyt, Arne, Jessica Bots, Hans Van Gossum, and Thomas N. Sherratt. "Negative frequency-dependent selection or alternative reproductive tactics: maintenance of female polymorphism in natural populations." BMC Evolutionary Biology 13, no. 1 (2013): 139. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-13-139.

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San-Jose, Luis M., Miguel Peñalver-Alcázar, Borja Milá, Virginia Gonzalez-Jimena, and Patrick S. Fitze. "Cumulative frequency-dependent selective episodes allow for rapid morph cycles and rock-paper-scissors dynamics in species with overlapping generations." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281, no. 1788 (2014): 20140976. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.0976.

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Rock-paper-scissors (RPS) dynamics, which maintain genetic polymorphisms over time through negative frequency-dependent (FD) selection, can evolve in short-lived species with no generational overlap, where they produce rapid morph frequency cycles. However, most species have overlapping generations and thus, rapid RPS dynamics are thought to require stronger FD selection, the existence of which yet needs to be proved. Here, we experimentally demonstrate that two cumulative selective episodes, FD sexual selection reinforced by FD selection on offspring survival, generate sufficiently strong sel

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Roy, B. A. "Differentiating the effects of origin and frequency in reciprocal transplant experiments used to test negative frequency-dependent selection hypotheses." Oecologia 115, no. 1-2 (1998): 73–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s004420050493.

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Kim, Yuseob. "Prevalence of negative frequency-dependent selection, revealed by incomplete selective sweeps in African populations of Drosophila melanogaster." BMB Reports 51, no. 1 (2018): 1–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.5483/bmbrep.2018.51.1.226.

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Koskella, Britt, and Curtis M. Lively. "EVIDENCE FOR NEGATIVE FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT SELECTION DURING EXPERIMENTAL COEVOLUTION OF A FRESHWATER SNAIL AND A STERILIZING TREMATODE." Evolution 63, no. 9 (2009): 2213–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00711.x.

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Estévez, Daniel, Juan Galindo, and Emilio Rolán‐Alvarez. "Negative frequency‐dependent selection maintains shell banding polymorphisms in two marine snails ( Littorina fabalis and Littorina saxatilis )." Ecology and Evolution 11, no. 11 (2021): 6381–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7489.

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Takahashi, Tetsumi, and Michio Hori. "Evidence of disassortative mating in a Tanganyikan cichlid fish and its role in the maintenance of intrapopulation dimorphism." Biology Letters 4, no. 5 (2008): 497–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2008.0244.

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Morphological dimorphism in the mouth-opening direction (‘lefty’ versus ‘righty’) has been documented in several fish species. It has been suggested that this deflection is heritable in a Mendelian one-locus, two-allele fashion. Several population models have demonstrated that lateral dimorphism is maintained by negative frequency-dependent selection, resulting from interactions between predator and prey species. However, other mechanisms for the maintenance of lateral dimorphism have not yet been tested. Here, we found that the scale-eating cichlid fish Perissodus microlepis exhibited disasso

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Zhao, Lei, and David Waxman. "The influence of genetic drift on the formation and stability of polymorphisms arising from negative frequency-dependent selection." Journal of Theoretical Biology 391 (February 2016): 51–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2015.11.011.

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Gigord, L. D. B., M. R. Macnair, and A. Smithson. "Negative frequency-dependent selection maintains a dramatic flower color polymorphism in the rewardless orchid Dactylorhiza sambucina (L.) Soo." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 98, no. 11 (2001): 6253–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.111162598.

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Dufay, Mathilde, Joël Cuguen, Jean-François Arnaud, and Pascal Touzet. "SEX RATIO VARIATION AMONG GYNODIOECIOUS POPULATIONS OF SEA BEET: CAN IT BE EXPLAINED BY NEGATIVE FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT SELECTION?" Evolution 63, no. 6 (2009): 1483–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00653.x.

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O’Neill, Mary B., Guillaume Laval, João C. Teixeira, Ann C. Palmenberg, and Caitlin S. Pepperell. "Genetic susceptibility to severe childhood asthma and rhinovirus-C maintained by balancing selection in humans for 150 000 years." Human Molecular Genetics 29, no. 5 (2019): 736–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddz304.

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Abstract Selective pressures imposed by pathogens have varied among human populations throughout their evolution, leading to marked inter-population differences at some genes mediating susceptibility to infectious and immune-related diseases. Here, we investigated the evolutionary history of a common polymorphism resulting in a Y529 versus C529 change in the cadherin related family member 3 (CDHR3) receptor which underlies variable susceptibility to rhinovirus-C infection and is associated with severe childhood asthma. The protective variant is the derived allele and is found at high frequency

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Stoeckel, Solenn, Etienne K. Klein, Sylvie Oddou-Muratorio, Brigitte Musch, and Stéphanie Mariette. "MICROEVOLUTION OF S-ALLELE FREQUENCIES IN WILD CHERRY POPULATIONS: RESPECTIVE IMPACTS OF NEGATIVE FREQUENCY DEPENDENT SELECTION AND GENETIC DRIFT." Evolution 66, no. 2 (2011): 486–504. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01457.x.

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Levitan, Don R., and Andres Plata Stapper. "SIMULTANEOUS POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT SELECTION ON SPERM BINDIN, A GAMETE RECOGNITION PROTEIN IN THE SEA URCHINSTRONGYLOCENTROTUS PURPURATUS." Evolution 64, no. 3 (2010): 785–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00850.x.

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Lobkovsky, Alexander E., Lee Levi, Yuri I. Wolf, et al. "Multiplicative fitness, rapid haplotype discovery, and fitness decay explain evolution of human MHC." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116, no. 28 (2019): 14098–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1714436116.

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The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) is a central component of the vertebrate immune system and hence evolves in the regime of a host–pathogen evolutionary race. The MHC is associated with quantitative traits which directly affect fitness and are subject to selection pressure. The evolution of haplotypes at the MHC HLA (HLA) locus is generally thought to be governed by selection for increased diversity that is manifested in overdominance and/or negative frequency-dependent selection (FDS). However, recently, a model combining purifying selection on haplotypes and balancing selection on a

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Gibson, Amanda K., P. Signe White, McKenna J. Penley, Jacobus C. de Roode, and Levi T. Morran. "An experimental test of parasite adaptation to common versus rare host genotypes." Biology Letters 16, no. 7 (2020): 20200210. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2020.0210.

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A core hypothesis in coevolutionary theory proposes that parasites adapt to specifically infect common host genotypes. Under this hypothesis, parasites function as agents of negative frequency-dependent selection, favouring rare host genotypes. This parasite-mediated advantage of rarity is key to the idea that parasites maintain genetic variation and select for outcrossing in host populations. Here, we report the results of an experimental test of parasite adaptation to common versus rare host genotypes. We selected the bacterial parasite Serratia marcescens to kill Caenorhabdiis elegans hosts

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Bolnick, Daniel I., Kimberly Hendrix, Lyndon Alexander Jordan, Thor Veen, and Chad D. Brock. "Intruder colour and light environment jointly determine how nesting male stickleback respond to simulated territorial intrusions." Biology Letters 12, no. 8 (2016): 20160467. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0467.

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Variation in male nuptial colour signals might be maintained by negative frequency-dependent selection. This can occur if males are more aggressive towards rivals with locally common colour phenotypes. To test this hypothesis, we introduced red or melanic three-dimensional printed-model males into the territories of nesting male stickleback from two optically distinct lakes with different coloured residents. Red-throated models were attacked more in the population with red males, while melanic models were attacked more in the melanic male lake. Aggression against red versus melanic models also

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Loffing, Florian. "Left-handedness and time pressure in elite interactive ball games." Biology Letters 13, no. 11 (2017): 20170446. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2017.0446.

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According to the fighting hypothesis, frequency-dependent selection gives relatively rarer left-handers a competitive edge in duel-like contests and is suggested as one mechanism that ensured the stable maintenance of handedness polymorphism in humans. Overrepresentation of left-handers exclusively in interactive sports seems to support the hypothesis. Here, by referring to data on interactive ball sports, I propose that a left-hander's advantage is linked to the sports’ underlying time pressure. The prevalence of left-handers listed in elite rankings increased from low (8.7%) to high (30.39%)

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Glémin, Sylvain, Thomas Bataillon, Joëlle Ronfort, Agnès Mignot, and Isabelle Olivieri. "Inbreeding Depression in Small Populations of Self-Incompatible Plants." Genetics 159, no. 3 (2001): 1217–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/genetics/159.3.1217.

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Abstract Self-incompatibility (SI) is a widespread mechanism that prevents inbreeding in flowering plants. In many species, SI is controlled by a single locus (the S locus) where numerous alleles are maintained by negative frequency-dependent selection. Inbreeding depression, the decline in fitness of selfed individuals compared to outcrossed ones, is an essential factor in the evolution of SI systems. Conversely, breeding systems influence levels of inbreeding depression. Little is known about the joint effect of SI and drift on inbreeding depression. Here we studied, using a two-locus model,

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Price, John S. "Behavioural ecology as a basic science for evolutionary psychiatry." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 29, no. 4 (2006): 420–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x06389091.

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To the evolutionarily oriented clinical psychiatrist, the discipline of behavioural ecology is a fertile basic science. Human psychology discusses variation in terms of means, standard deviations, heritabilities, and so on, but behavioural ecology deals with mutually incompatible alternative behavioural strategies, the heritable variation being maintained by negative frequency-dependent selection. I suggest that behavioural ecology should be included in the interdisciplinary dialogue recommended by Keller & Miller (K&M).

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Valvo, Jennifer J., F. Helen Rodd, and Kimberly A. Hughes. "Consistent female preference for rare and unfamiliar male color patterns in wild guppy populations." Behavioral Ecology 30, no. 6 (2019): 1672–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arz134.

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Abstract How genetic variation is maintained in ecologically important traits is a central question in evolutionary biology. Male Trinidadian guppies, Poecilia reticulata, exhibit high genetic diversity in color patterns within populations, and field and laboratory studies implicate negative frequency-dependent selection in maintaining this variation. However, behavioral and ecological processes that mediate this selection in natural populations are poorly understood. We evaluated female mate preference in 11 natural guppy populations, including paired populations from high- and low-predation

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Lehtonen, Jussi, and Hanna Kokko. "Positive feedback and alternative stable states in inbreeding, cooperation, sex roles and other evolutionary processes." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 367, no. 1586 (2012): 211–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2011.0177.

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A large proportion of studies in systems science focus on processes involving a mixture of positive and negative feedbacks, which are also common themes in evolutionary ecology. Examples of negative feedback are density dependence (population regulation) and frequency-dependent selection (polymorphisms). Positive feedback, in turn, plays a role in Fisherian ‘runaway’ sexual selection, the evolution of cooperation, selfing and inbreeding tolerance under purging of deleterious alleles, and the evolution of sex differences in parental care. All these examples feature self-reinforcing processes wh

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Rolán-Alvarez, Emilio, María Saura, Angel P. Diz, et al. "Can sexual selection and disassortative mating contribute to the maintenance of a shell color polymorphism in an intertidal marine snail?" Current Zoology 58, no. 3 (2012): 463–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/czoolo/58.3.463.

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Abstract Littorina fabalis is an intertidal snail commonly living on the brown algae Fucus vesiculosus and showing frequent shell-color polymorphisms in the wild. The evolutionary mechanism underlying this polymorphism is currently unknown. Shell color variation was studied in mated and non-mated specimens of this species from different microareas in one locality from NW Spain, in order to estimate sexual selection and assortative mating that may (still) be operating in this population. The analyses across microareas allowed us to investigate frequency-dependent selection and assortative matin

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Chen, Patrick, and Rees Kassen. "The evolution and fate of diversity under hard and soft selection." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 287, no. 1934 (2020): 20201111. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.1111.

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How genetic variation arises and persists over evolutionary time despite the depleting effects of natural selection remains a long-standing question. Here, we investigate the impacts of two extreme forms of population regulation—at the level of the total, mixed population (hard selection) and at the level of local, spatially distinct patches (soft selection)—on the emergence and fate of diversity under strong divergent selection. We find that while the form of population regulation has little effect on rates of diversification, it can modulate the long-term fate of genetic variation, diversity

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Tellier, Aurélien, and James K. M. Brown. "Stability of genetic polymorphism in host–parasite interactions." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 274, no. 1611 (2006): 809–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2006.0281.

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Allelic diversity is common at host loci involved in parasite recognition, such as the major histocompatibility complex in vertebrates or gene-for-gene relationships in plants, and in corresponding loci encoding antigenic molecules in parasites. Diverse factors have been proposed in models to account for genetic polymorphism in host–parasite recognition. Here, a simple but general theory of host–parasite coevolution is developed. Coevolution implies the existence of indirect frequency-dependent selection (FDS), because natural selection on the host depends on the frequency of a parasite gene,

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Llaurens, V., M. Raymond, and C. Faurie. "Why are some people left-handed? An evolutionary perspective." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 364, no. 1519 (2008): 881–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2008.0235.

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Since prehistoric times, left-handed individuals have been ubiquitous in human populations, exhibiting geographical frequency variations. Evolutionary explanations have been proposed for the persistence of the handedness polymorphism. Left-handedness could be favoured by negative frequency-dependent selection. Data have suggested that left-handedness, as the rare hand preference, could represent an important strategic advantage in fighting interactions. However, the fact that left-handedness occurs at a low frequency indicates that some evolutionary costs could be associated with left-handedne

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