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Cultural transmission of fitness: genes take the fast lane.

Heyer, Evelyne, Sibert, Alexandre, Austerlitz, Frédéric·2005·Trends in Genetics
DOI 10.1016/j.tig.2005.02.007
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Classical population genetics describes how the fate of an allele is driven by four forces: mutation, migration, selection and drift. However, these are sometimes insufficient to explain how the observed allele frequency changes and, therefore, another factor must be invoked: cultural transmission of fitness (CTF). CTF is the non-genetic transmission of any kind of behaviour that affects reproductive success. There are several clearly documented examples of CTF, and theoretical studies have shown that it affects effective population size, linkage disequilibrium and coalescent times. It is therefore a factor that must be taken into account to explain the structure of genetic diversity. In this article, we will present documented cases of how CTF affects the genetic diversity of populations and yields dramatic changes in allele frequencies.

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Authors
Heyer, E., Sibert, A., & Austerlitz, F.
Venue
Trends in Genetics
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2005-04
Volume
21
Issue
4
Pages
234-239
ISSN
0168-9525
DOI
10.1016/j.tig.2005.02.007
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2
Language
en
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Heyer, E., Sibert, A., & Austerlitz, F. (2005). Cultural transmission of fitness: genes take the fast lane. Trends in Genetics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tig.2005.02.007