6 Darwinian Selection

6.1 Selection in haploid organisms

6.1.1 Discrete generations

6.1.2 Continuous time

6.1.3 Change in Allel frequncy in Haploids

6.1.4 Darwinian Fitness and Malthusian Fitness

6.2 Selection in Diploid organisms

6.2.1 Change in Allele freuqncy in Diploids

6.2.2 Marginal Fitness and Selection with Multiple Alleles

6.2.3 Application to the Evolution of Insecticide Resistance

6.3 Equilibria with Selection

6.3.1 Overdominance

6.3.2 Local stability

6.3.3 Heterozygote inferiority

6.3.4 Stable equilibria with multiple alleles

6.3.5 Adaptive topography and the role of random genetic drift

6.4 Mutation-Selection balance

6.4.1 Equilibrium Allele frequencies

6.4.2 The Haldane-Muller Principle

6.5 More complex types of selection

6.5.1 Differential selection in the sexes

6.5.2 X-linked genes

6.5.3 Frequency-dependent selection

6.5.4 Density-dependent selection

6.5.5 Fecundity selection

6.5.6 Age-structured populations

6.5.7 Heterogenous environments and clines

6.5.8 Diversifying selection

6.5.9 Gametic selection

6.5.10 Meiotic drive

6.5.11 Multiple loci and gene interaction: epistasis

6.5.12 Evolution of recombination rate

6.5.13 Sexual selection

6.5.14 Kin selection

6.6 Interdeme selection in geographically subdivided populations

6.7 Selection in a finite population

6.7.1 Weak selection and the nearly neutral theory

6.7.2 Genetic “Draft”