Meaning adaptive landscape
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adaptive landscape


A three-dimensional depiction of population mean fitness as a function of genotype or phenotype, in which the horizontal axes are allele frequencies at two loci or two phenotypic traits, and the verti [..]
Source: nature.com

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Source: evolution-textbook.org

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adaptive landscape


AKA: adaptive surface The surface plotted in a three-dimensional graph; with all possible combinations of allele frequencies for different loci plotted in the plane; and mean fitness for each combinat [..]
Source: groups.molbiosci.northwestern.edu

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adaptive landscape


A metaphor for the relationship between mean fitness of a population and the allele frequencies at one or more loci that affect fitness. Possible populations with allele frequencies that maximize mean fitness are represented as peaks on the metaphorical landscape.
Source: sites.sinauer.com





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