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A new model of genotypic-specific habitat selection is proposed in which habitats are given a biologically meaningful way with differences in the frequency of various niches. Conditions for polymorphism are quite robust even for small viability differences. A method to estimate habitat selection parameters from information on habitat preference is given. Even when habitat preference is not great, it may have a large effect on maintaining polymorphism.
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Hedrick, P. Genotypic-specific habitat selection: a new model and its application. Heredity 65, 145–149 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1038/hdy.1990.81
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