Search for dissertations about: "Advantageous selection"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 38 swedish dissertations containing the words Advantageous selection.

  2. 1. The Interplay Between Selection And Constraints On Adaptive Divergence And Phenotypic Evolution

    Author : Fabrice Eroukhmanoff; Biologiska institutionen; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Selection; Constraints; Adaptive Divergence; G-matrix; Gene Flow.; Speciation;

    Abstract : Under natural or sexual selection, individuals with advantageous traits or combinations of traits will be more successful than their peers at surviving and/or reproducing. Provided these traits are heritable, meaning that they have a genetic basis, the traits combinations which are selected for, will increase in frequency in the population. READ MORE

  4. 2. Sexual conflict and selection on pistil and pollen traits

    Author : Josefin Madjidian; Biologiska institutionen; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Antagonistic trait; Collinsia heterophylla; delayed stigma receptivity; direct cost; first-donor advantage; gender bias; heritability; indirect benefit; mate choice; mixed-mating system; paternal diversity; pollen competition; pollen deposition; pollen load size; pollen tube growth rate; self-compatibility; semantics; sexual conflict; sexual selection; sexually antagonistic co-evolution;

    Abstract : The incidence of sexual selection in plants is today acknowledged, however, just as in animals, evolution and maintenance of mate choice is gravely underexplored. Moreover, the potential for sexual conflicts to occur in plants has only been assessed empirically to a very limited degree. READ MORE

  5. 3. An evaluation of the adult education initiative relative labor market training

    Author : Anders Stenberg; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Economics; Selection; adult education; wage earnings; labor market training; duration; incidence; unemployment; Nationalekonomi; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

    Abstract : This thesis consists of three papers which evaluate the effects of the Adult Education Initiative (AEI) in Sweden relative to the vocational part of Labor Market Training (LMT). Paper [I] studies unemployment incidence and unemployment duration for participants in the AEI relative to LMT. READ MORE

  6. 4. Novel binding specificities engineered into the scaffold of a carbohydrate binding module

    Author : Lavinia Cicortas Gunnarsson; Institutionen för immunteknologi; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Bioteknik; Biotechnology; carbohydrate binding module; binding specificity; selection; combinatorial library; scaffold; protein engineering;

    Abstract : The growing field of biotechnology is in constant need of proteins that can function as recognition tools for separational, analytical and therapeutic purposes. Different molecular engineering approaches are applied on natural proteins in order to create variants with desired properties. READ MORE

  7. 5. Selection and moral hazard in health insurance : taking contract theory to the data

    Author : E Grönqvist; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : Asymmetric information is a large potential problem for insurance markets, especially for markets insuring health risk. Despite a large theoretical attention over the last 30 years, the empirical evidence of the extent of the problem is still limited. In part this is due to methodological problems. READ MORE