Accurate Alternative Measurements for Female Lifetime Reproductive Success in Drosophila melanogaster.

Fitness is an individual's ability to survive and reproduce, and is an important concept in evolutionary biology. However, accurately measuring fitness is often difficult, and appropriate fitness surrogates need to be identified. Lifetime reproductive success, the total progeny an organism can...

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Main Authors: Trinh T X Nguyen, Amanda J Moehring
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0116679