Reaction norms of Arabidopsis. IV. Relationships between plasticity and fitness

Heredity

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 427-436

  Pigliucci, Massimo ^a,b   Schlichting, Carl D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; Evolution; Fitness; Phenotypic plasticity

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; REACTION NORM;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARABIDOPSIS; PHENOTYPE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTION; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0030136061     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/hdy.1996.65     Document Type: Article

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