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ReviewGenetics2020

Life-History Evolution and the Genetics of Fitness Components in

Thomas Flatt

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Review in Genetics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 79 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

79 citing papers in PubMed.

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  13. Distribution Analysis of the Lifespan Trait in Drosophila.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  14. The Effect of Early Stress on Drosophila melanogaster Development and Fertility.Doklady biological sciences : proceedings of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Biological sciences sections · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Thomas FlattDepartment of Biology, University of Fribourg, CH-1700, Switzerland thomas.flatt@unifr.ch.ORCID 0000-0002-5990-1503

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Life-history traits or "fitness components"-such as age and size at maturity, fecundity and fertility, age-specific rates of survival, and life span-are the major phenotypic determinants of Darwinian fitness. Analyzing the evolution and genetics of these phenotypic targets of selection is central to our understanding of adaptation. Due to its simple and rapid life cycle, cosmopolitan distribution, ease of maintenance in the laboratory, well-understood evolutionary genetics, and its versatile genetic toolbox, the "vinegar fly"

Indexed as

Genetic FitnessAnimalsBiological EvolutionDrosophila melanogasterEcologyFertilityLife Cycle StagesLongevitySelection, Geneticadaptationfitnessfitness componentsFlyBooklife-history evolutionplasticityselectiontrade-offsvariation

Identifiers

PMID31907300
PMCPMC6944413

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