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Natural Selection
Selection is the only evolutionary mechanism that leads to nonrandom changes in allele frequencies.
Natural selection can increase or decrease the amount of genetic diversity in a population.
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Natural Selection
Types of natural selection:
• Directional selection decreases diversity by favoring one extreme phenotype in the population.
• Stabilizing selection decreases diversity by favoring the average phenotype over both extremes.
• Disruptive selection increases diversity by favoring both extremes, and selecting against the average.
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Directional selection changes the average value of a trait.
Value of a trait
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For example, directional selection caused overallbody size to increase in a Cliff Swallow population
Figure 22.7b
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Stabilizing selection reduces the amount of variation in a trait.
Figure 22.8a
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For example, very small and very large babies are mostlikely to die, leaving a narrower distribution of birthweights.
Figure 22.8b
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Goldenrod Spherical Gall
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The gall fly lays an egg near the apical meristem of a goldenrod
The larva hatches from the egg and burrows into the goldenrod at the apical meristem
Secretions from the larva induce the formation of the gall by the goldenrod plant
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The larva overwinters inside the gall, emerging the following spring
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The Spot-winged Fly larvae have two types of enemies
Parasitoid wasps
These wasps oviposit an egg through the wall of the gall
The wasp larva hatches and then consumes the gall fly larva
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Birds are also enemies of the gall fly larvae
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Stabilizing selection is observed for the diameter of the galls
Galls that are thin-walled are subject to wasp parasitism
Galls that are thick-walled are subject to bird predation
Selection favors the galls of intermediate diameter
• Thick enough to discourage wasp oviposition
• Thin enough to make bird predation difficult
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Disruptive selection increases the amount of variation in a trait.
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For example, only juvenile Black-bellied Seedcrackers with very longor very short beaks survived long enough to breed.
Figure 22.9b
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Song Thrush
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Cepaea nemoralis
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Cepaea nemoralis
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