Adaptive value

The variation that can best adapted to their surroundings will survive.[1]

The adaptive value represents the combined influence of all characters which affect the fitness of an individual or population.

Definition

Adaptive value is an essential concept of population genetics. It represents usefulness of a trait that can help an organism to survive in its environment. This heritable trait that can help offspring to cope with the new surrounding or condition is a measurable quantity.[2] Measuring adaptive value increases our understanding of how a trait helps an individual's or population's chances of survival in a particular set of conditions.[3]

Measurement

The adaptive value can be measured by contribution of an individual to the gene pole of their offspring.The adaptive values are approximately calculated from the rates of change in frequency and mutation–selection balance.[2]

Examples

Biston betularia f. typica is the white-bodied form of the peppered moth.
Biston betularia f. carbonaria is the black-bodied form of the peppered moth.

See also

External links

References

  1. "Evolution".
  2. 1 2 Wallace, Bruce (September 1952). "The Estimation of Adaptive Values of Experimental Populations". Society for the Study of Evolution 6 (3): 331–341.
  3. Moran & Lehet. "Visual Mimicry in Cephalopods". Reed College. Retrieved 25 November 2013.
  4. Kaplan, Ian (November 1, 2012). "Trophic Complexity and the Adaptive Value of Damage-Induced Plant Volatile". PLoS Biology 10 (11): 1–5. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001437.
  5. Hanlon, Roger T.; Naud, Marié-Jose; Shaw, Paul W.; Havenhand, Jon N. (20 January 2005). "Behavioural ecology: Transient sexual mimicry leads to fertilization". Nature 433 (7023): 212–212. doi:10.1038/433212a. PMID 15662403.

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