The fitness threshold model: Random environmental change alters adaptive landscapes

Evolutionary Ecology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 615-626

  DeWitt, Thomas J ^a   Yoshimura, Jin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Development; Evolution; Optimality; Phenotypic variation; Stochastic environments

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EVOLUTION; FITNESS; GENETIC VARIATION; MODELING;

EID: 0031878983     PISSN: 02697653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006564911480     Document Type: Article

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