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Table 1 Terms and variables

From: The importance of selection in the evolution of blindness in cavefish

B

An allele that causes sightedness

b

An allele that causes blindness

q

Allele frequency of b in the cave population

Q

Allele frequency of b in the surface population

q ′

Frequency of b in the cave population in the next generation

Δ q

Change in allele frequency in a generation

s

Fitness advantage of b in the cave population

h

Dominance level of b in heterozygotes

m

Rate of immigration from the surface population to the cave population

u

Mutation rate of B to b

k

Number of additive diploid loci

N

The size of the population in the cave