Modularity and the cost of complexity

Evolution

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1723-1734

  Welch, John J ^a   Waxman, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Evolutionary rates; Fisher's geometrical model; Modularity; Pleiotropy

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION;

MARTES PENNANTI;

EID: 0043286749     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2003.tb00581.x     Document Type: Article

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