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Everything about Selection limits
Animal breeding concept
A selection limit is a term from animal breeding and quantitative genetics that refers to a cessation of progress even when continued directional selection is being applied to a trait, such as body size. In other words, a breeder or scientist is using selective breeding and choosing individuals as breeders within a population based on some phenotypic trait or traits. If this is done, then the average value of the population typically evolves across generations in the direction being favored by selection, but then at some point the population stops evolving. The trait under selection is then said to have reached a limit or plateau at that value. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Selection limitsA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Conserved γδ T cell selection by BTNL proteins limits progression of human inflammatory bowel diseaseInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Light art from artificial lightThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Gene flow and the limits to natural selectionCited 1,681 times
- Go sideways: Directional selectionA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Genetic varianceA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Gene flow and the limits to natural selection
The limits of selection during maize domestication
Linkage and the limits to natural selection.
The Nature of Limits to Natural Selection
A theory of limits in artificial selection
Detecting balancing selection in genomes: limits and prospects
Phenotypic Selection in Natural Populations: What Limits Directional Selection?
Environmental Coupling of Selection and Heritability Limits Evolution
🆕 Influential since 2022
Conserved γδ T cell selection by BTNL proteins limits progression of human inflammatory bowel disease
DREAMTIME NMR Spectroscopy: Targeted Multi‐Compound Selection with Improved Detection Limits
Pushing the limits: expanding the temperature tolerance of a coral photosymbiont through differing selection regimes
Dynamic winter weather moderates movement and resource selection of wild turkeys at high‐latitude range limits
Selection Can Favor a Recombination Landscape That Limits Polygenic Adaptation
📚 Books worth reading
Light art from artificial lightPeter Weibel, Gregor Jansen · 2006- 📕The Marconi scandalFrances Lonsdale Donaldson · 1962
African masks from the Barbier-Mueller Collection Geneva. Ausstellung im Haus der Kunst M unchen 14.02. - 27.04.1997Iris Hahner-Herzog, Maria Kecskesi · 2002
Schweizer Chemieunternehmen im "Dritten Reich"Lukas Straumann · 2001
Opinion de Michiels de pute de la Meuse-Infe rieure, sur la re solution du 12 messidor portant que le renouvellement des tribunaux de paix se fait en entier tous les deux ans, a partir de l'an 4Joseph Michiels · 1798
Projet de re solution sur le remplacement des juges du tribunal de cassation, nomme s au Corps le gislatif par les dernie res assemble es e lectoralesRoemers, Charles Cle ment baron de · 1798- 📕Term limitation · 1992
A Book of Good PoemsC. T. Fyfe (Editor) · 1959
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