Major life-history transitions by deterministic directional natural selection

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 225, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 389-406

  Witting, Lars ^a  

^a GREENLAND INSTITUTE OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Greenland)

Author keywords

Competitive interactions; Density dependence; Deterministic natural selection; Evolutionary ecology; Major transitions

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; LIFE HISTORY; NATURAL SELECTION; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY;

ALLOMETRY; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY MASS; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GAME; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MALE; METABOLIC RATE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NATURAL SELECTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 0242361169     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5193(03)00274-1     Document Type: Article

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