Quantitative genetic and optimality analyses of life-history plasticity in the eastern mosquitofish, Gambusia holbrooki

Evolution

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1358-1365

  Weeks, Stephen C ^a,b   Meffe, Gary K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

Author keywords

Additive genetic variance; food limitation; genotype by environment interaction; norms of reaction; phenotypic plasticity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0029745793     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1996.tb02378.x     Document Type: Article

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