Fitness and its role in evolutionary genetics Export

@article{citeulike:4981279, abstract = {Although the operation of natural selection requires that genotypes differ in fitness, some geneticists may find it easier to understand natural selection than fitness. Partly this reflects the fact that the word 'fitness' has been used to mean subtly different things. In this Review I distinguish among these meanings (for example, individual fitness, absolute fitness and relative fitness) and explain how evolutionary geneticists use fitness to predict changes in the genetic composition of populations through time. I also review the empirical study of fitness, emphasizing approaches that take advantage of recent genetic and genomic data, and I highlight important unresolved problems in understanding fitness.}, author = {Orr, H. Allen}, citeulike-article-id = {4981279}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nrg2603}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nrg2603}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19546856}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=19546856}, day = {01}, doi = {10.1038/nrg2603}, issn = {1471-0056}, journal = {Nature Reviews Genetics}, keywords = {evolution, evolutionary, fitness, genetic, review, selection}, month = {Aug}, number = {8}, pages = {531--539}, posted-at = {2009-08-12 22:42:21}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Nature Publishing Group}, title = {Fitness and its role in evolutionary genetics}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nrg2603}, volume = {10}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:4981279 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4981279 N2 - Although the operation of natural selection requires that genotypes differ in fitness, some geneticists may find it easier to understand natural selection than fitness. Partly this reflects the fact that the word 'fitness' has been used to mean subtly different things. In this Review I distinguish among these meanings (for example, individual fitness, absolute fitness and relative fitness) and explain how evolutionary geneticists use fitness to predict changes in the genetic composition of populations through time. I also review the empirical study of fitness, emphasizing approaches that take advantage of recent genetic and genomic data, and I highlight important unresolved problems in understanding fitness. IS - 8 JF - Nature Reviews Genetics SN - 1471-0056 EP - 539 TI - Fitness and its role in evolutionary genetics PB - Nature Publishing Group VL - 10 SP - 531 KW - evolution KW - evolutionary KW - fitness KW - genetic KW - review KW - selection AU - Orr, Allen PY - 2009/Aug/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nrg2603 ER -