Abstract
Typical behavior of a two-locus genetic system experiencing cyclical selection, includes fixation (in one or both loci) or a stable polymorphic cycle with a period equal to that of environmental changes. By considering the time scale in terms of environmental periods, the last case could be trivially classified as a polymorphic stable point. Here we report on some results showing the complex limiting behavior of diploid population trajectories resulting from selection in a cyclically changing environment. We found that simple cyclical selection could produce genetic supercycles composed of many hundreds of environmental periods.
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