On the assignment of fitness values in statistical analyses of selection

Evolution

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 437-442

  Brodie III, Edmund D ^a   Janzen, Fredric J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Natural selection; Opportunity for selection; Selection analysis; Sexual selection; Survival; Turtles

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030024708     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1996.tb04505.x     Document Type: Article

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