Perspective: The theories of fisher and wright in the context of metapopulations: When nature does many small experiments

Evolution

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1537-1553

  Wade, Michael J ^a   Goodnight, Charles J ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Average effect; Conversion; Epistasis; Fisher; Interdemic selection; Metapopulation; Shifting balance; Variance components; Wright

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; EVOLUTION; METAPOPULATION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

MARTES PENNANTI;

EID: 0032425770     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1998.tb02235.x     Document Type: Review

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