Reducing environmental bias when measuring natural selection

Evolution

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 2156-2167

  Scheiner, Samuel M ^a   Donohue, Kathleen ^b,e   Dorn, Lisa A ^b   Mazer, Susan J ^c   Wolfe, Lorne M ^d  

^a NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; Impatiens capensis; Natural selection; Path analysis; Raphanus sativus; Regression analysis; Selection gradient

Indexed keywords

MEASUREMENT METHOD; NATURAL SELECTION; PATH ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; IMPATIENS; IMPATIENS CAPENSIS; PANACEA; RAPHANUS SATIVUS;

EID: 0036862213     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2002.tb00140.x     Document Type: Article

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