Sexual size dimorphism as a correlated response to selection on body size: An empirical test of the quantitative genetic model

Evolution

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1927-1938

  Reeve, Jeff P ^a   Fairbairn, Daphne J ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Artificial selection; body size; Drosophila melanogaster; growth trajectories; sexual size dimorphism

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER; DIPTERA; DROSOPHILIDAE;

BODY SIZE; GENETIC MODEL; GROWTH TRAJECTORY; SELECTION; SEXUAL SIZE DIMORPHISM;

EID: 0029659218     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1996.tb03580.x     Document Type: Article

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