The importance of evolutionary constraints in ecological time scales

Evolutionary Ecology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 423-431

  Björklund, Mats ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

constraints; genetic integration; genetic variance covariance matrix; morphology; multivariate analysis; PCA; selection

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE PEAK; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY CONSTRAINT;

EID: 0029659641     PISSN: 02697653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01237727     Document Type: Article

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