Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602-7223, USA.
Genetics. 2009 Aug;182(4):1387-9. doi: 10.1534/genetics.109.101436. Epub 2009 May 17.
The "middle-class neighborhood" is a breeding design intended to allow new mutations to accumulate by lessening the effects of purifying selection through the elimination of among-line fitness variation. We show that this design effectively applies soft selection to the experimental population, potentially causing biased estimates of mutational effects if social effects contribute to fitness.
“中产阶级社区”是一种培育设计,旨在通过消除谱系内适应度变异来减少净化选择的影响,从而允许新的突变积累。我们表明,这种设计有效地对实验种群施加了软选择,如果社会效应有助于适应度,那么可能会导致对突变效应的有偏差估计。