BMC Evolutionary Biology

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Parasite-mediated disruptive selection in a natural Daphnia population

Meghan A Duffy1,2,3*, Chad E Brassil1,4, Spencer R Hall5,6, Alan J Tessier7, Carla E Cáceres5 and Jeffrey K Conner1,8

Author Affiliations

1 W. K. Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University, Hickory Corners, MI 49060, USA

2 Department of Zoology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA

3 School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0230, USA

4 School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA

5 School of Integrative Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA

6 Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA

7 Division of Environmental Biology, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA 22230, USA

8 Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA

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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:80 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-8-80

Published: 7 March 2008

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Additional file 1:

Code for maximum likelihood analysis. Zip file containing R-code for the maximum likelihood analysis. The free statistical program R can be obtained from http://www.r-project.org webcite. The zip file also contains the data files used for the normal and binomial analyses.

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