Chapter 21: Conflict and Cooperation: Figure P21.7 - (<i>Blue line</i>) Net fitness gained by an allele inherited from the mother, assuming that resource <i>z</i> is allocated to its high-quality embryo, and the rest evenly distributed across the four other high-quality siblings.

Figure P21.7

Figure P21.7. (Blue line) Net fitness gained by an allele inherited from the mother, assuming that resource z is allocated to its high-quality embryo, and the rest evenly distributed across the four other high-quality siblings. (Red line) Total fitness of the parent plant, which is maximized at an even allocation, z = 1 (upper arrow).

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