One of Many Scenarios (IMAGE)

Brown University

One of Many Scenarios

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The fitness of a genetic trait (an allele) may vary over time, rather than remain constant. In this simple model, populations with two different alleles (black or yellow) see-saw between advantage and disadvantage as their relative fitness changes over time (blue line below).

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Weinreich et. al.

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