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Since many natural populations are divided into subpopulations, it is important to investigate the effects of the joint action of selection and migration. We shall suppose that the population occupies a number of distinct niches, each of which has its own selection pattern. The niches may be defined by any pertinent set of environmental variables. If a population is distributed in clusters, this scheme provides a reasonable model for geographical variation. The study of the spatial variation of gene frequencies, however, requires more advanced analysis; see Nagylaki (1989c) and references therein. In this chapter, we shall confine ourselves to the easier problem of the maintenance of genetic diversity. For time-dependent environments, we examined this question in Sect. 4.5 by introducing the concept of protected polymorphism. We shall use the same approach here to expound multi-niche selection.
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Nagylaki, T. (1992). Migration and Selection. In: Introduction to Theoretical Population Genetics. Biomathematics, vol 21. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76214-7_6
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