Measuring Nonlinear Selection

American Naturalist

Volumn 162, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 815-820

  Blows, Mark W ^a   Brooks, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Canonical analysis; Correlational selection; Nonlinear selection; Selection analysis; Stabilizing selection

Indexed keywords

SELECTION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; GENETIC SELECTION; MALE; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PIGMENTATION; POECILIA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEX FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; CYPRINODONTIFORMES;

EID: 0742323167     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/378905     Document Type: Article

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