Artificial selection on phenotypically plastic traits

Genetical Research

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 265-270

  Kirkpatrick, Mark ^a   Bataillon, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREEDING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE GENETICS;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SELECTION (GENETICS); VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0033400879     PISSN: 00166723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016672399004115     Document Type: Article

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