Natural heritabilities: Can they be reliably estimated in the laboratory?

Evolution

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 2149-2157

  Weigensberg, Ilana ^a   Roff, Derek A ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Additive genetic variance; narrow sense heritability; natural heritability; quantitative genetics

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; HERITABILITY; NARROW-SENSE HERITABILITY; NATURAL HERITABILITY; QUANTITATIVE GENETICS;

EID: 0030301370     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1996.tb03605.x     Document Type: Article

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