Exploring complex fitness surfaces: Multiple ornamentation and polymorphism in male guppies

Evolution

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1622-1630

  Blows, Mark W ^a   Brooks, Robert ^b   Kraft, Peter G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Disruptive selection; Nonlinear selection; Polymorphism; Projection pursuit regression; Quadratic response; Selection analysis; Sexual selection; Surface

Indexed keywords

DIVERGENCE; FISH; ORNAMENTATION; POLYMORPHISM; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ANIMALIA; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; POECILIA RETICULATA;

EID: 0042196259     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2003.tb00369.x     Document Type: Article

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