Laboratory relationships between adult lifetime reproductive success and fitness surrogates in a Drosophila littoralis population.

The difficulties in measuring total fitness of individuals necessitate the use of fitness surrogates in ecological and evolutionary studies. These surrogates can be different components of fitness (e.g. survival or fecundity), or proxies more uncertainly related to fitness (e.g. body size or growth...

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Main Authors: Nina Pekkala, Janne S Kotiaho, Mikael Puurtinen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3170365?pdf=render