期刊
EVOLUTION
卷 75, 期 4, 页码 806-818出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/evo.14198
关键词
Bias; measurement error; multivariate mixed‐ modeling; phenotypic selection; plasticity; repeatability
资金
- German Science Foundation [DI 1694/1-1]
- Research Council of Norway [223257]
- U.S. National Science Foundation [IOS-1656212]
- University of Kentucky
The study reveals that selection gradients based on traits measured only once may be attenuated, and deriving individual-mean trait values with few repeats per individual does not remove bias. The three evaluated solutions all require repeated measures for accurate estimates, with errors-in-variables models showing a preference for more precise estimates.
Ecologists and evolutionary biologists routinely estimate selection gradients. Most researchers seek to quantify selection on individual phenotypes, regardless of whether fixed or repeatedly expressed traits are studied. Selection gradients estimated to address such questions are attenuated unless analyses account for measurement error and biological sources of within-individual variation. Estimates of standardized selection gradients published in Evolution between 2010 and 2019 were primarily based on traits measured once (59% of 325 estimates). We show that those are attenuated: bias increases with decreasing repeatability but differently for linear versus nonlinear gradients. Others derived individual-mean trait values prior to analyses (41%), typically using few repeats per individual, which does not remove bias. We evaluated three solutions, all requiring repeated measures: (i) correcting gradients derived from classic models using estimates of trait correlations and repeatabilities, (ii) multivariate mixed-effects models, previously used for estimating linear gradients (seven estimates, 2%), which we expand to nonlinear analyses, and (iii) errors-in-variables models that account for within-individual variance, and are rarely used in selection studies. All approaches produced accurate estimates regardless of repeatability and type of gradient, however, errors-in-variables models produced more precise estimates and may thus be preferable.
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