Evolutionary BiologybioRxivPreprint
Competing adaptations maintain non-adaptive variation in a wild cricket population
Jack G. Rayner, Franca Eichenberger, Jessica V. A. Bainbridge…·Nathan W. Bailey
The paper shows that two adaptive traits in crickets co-occur and prevent each from fixing due to genetic linkage and fitness costs.
DOI 10.1101/2023.10.14.562337