Consequences of reduced genetic variance on developmental instability estimators

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 893-902

  Pertoldi, Cino ^a,b,f   Andersen, Ditte Holm ^b,c   Kristensen, Torsten Nygaard ^b,d   Loeschcke, Volker ^b,e  

^a PO B   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c Dipartimento di Biologia Evoluzionistica Sperimentale   (Italy)

^d DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

^e LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fluctuating asymmetry; Genetic drift; Genetic variance; Phenotypic variance

Indexed keywords

EID: 1242318169     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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