relative fitness
collocation in Englishmeaningsofrelativeandfitness
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relative
adjective
uk/ˈrel.ə.tɪv/us/ˈrel.ə.t̬ɪv/
being judged or measured in comparison with ...
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fitness
noun[U]
uk/ˈfɪt.nəs/us/ˈfɪt.nəs/
the condition of being physically strong ...
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Relativefitness(w) is a measure related to intrinsic population growth rate and is suitable for an age-structured population.
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Through the rest of the text the term ' fitness ' will meanrelativefitnessor, strictly speaking, relative growth rate.
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Determiningrelativefitnessin competition experiments has two advantages over determining absolute fitness by counting progeny numbers.
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The amount of food available in this instance being related to therelativefitnessof the design solution as defined by the engineering system model.
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That means additional mutations cause a smaller decline ofrelativefitnessthan previous mutations.
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Depending upon therelativefitnessof the genotype (see below), two versions of the method can be used.
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Typically, the resistance status andrelativefitnessof heterozygotes is unknown prior to resistance evolving.
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Unfortunately it would appear that most of the available data are inadequate to detect arelativefitnessdifferential of up to 10%.
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An ' association ' estimate was calculated as the meanrelativefitnessof a wild-type and a double heterozygous mutant obtained from a given cross (irj).
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To overcome this problem, scaling methods are applied to the fitness values to emphasize therelativefitnessof the genome within the population.
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This result was obtained with a very narrow range ofrelativefitnessand a minimum number of interacting loci.
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The mean haploidrelativefitnesswas 0.512 in the original assay and 0.513 in the present one.
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Notes onrelativefitnessof genotypes that forms a geometric progression.
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Each additional mutation causes a larger decline ofrelativefitness.
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Individual's chromosomes are copied from one generation to the next according to theirrelativefitness value in respect to the total population's fitness.
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Four fitness correlates were obtained from the productivity data : early productivity (days 1-2), late productivity (days 3-5), total productivity (days 1-5) andrelativefitness.
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This model assumes that neutral alleles are not neutral indefinitely, and that in specific and very rare situations phenotypic (relativefitness) differences between them can appear.
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