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18 The Maintenance of Quantitative Genetic Variation

• Introduction: The nature of within-population variation
• One-locus theory
  • Mutation-Drift equilibrium
  • Mutation-selection equilibrium
  • Neutralist-Selectionist debate for Molecular Variation
  • Estimating N_e from molecular data
• Equilibrium Variances under Directional Selection
• Estimation of sigma²_m from Selection Experiments
  • Lopez-Fanjul's Selection Experiment on Drosophila Bristle Number
• Optimzing selection
  • Genetic variation in the absence of mutation
• Mutation-selection equilibrium Models under Optimzing Selection
  • Kimura's Model
  • Lande's Model
  • Bulmer's model
  • House of cards vs. contiunm of allele models
• What forces maintain quantitative-genetic variation?

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