Does anyone know of quantitative genetic studies of free-living animal populations that are run by researchers outside Europe, North America and Australia/NZ?
Either there are some and I would love to find them, or there aren’t and that’s worth knowing.
Some traditional breeding approaches select for “selfish” traits that can reduce yield in high-density monocultures. This paper proposes a simple method to identify plant genotypes that express more cooperative versus more competitive traits, based on how they grow in different social environments, and applies this method to a genetic study with Arabidopsis thaliana.
This Formal Comment uses re-analysis after appropriate corrections to claim that the extreme decline effect reported by Clements et al. is a statistical artefact caused by the way they corrected for zeros in percentage data, exacerbated by errors in data compilation, selective data inclusions and missing studies with strong effects.