Understanding natural selection: An approach integrating selection gradients, multiplicative fitness components, and path analysis

Ethology Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 387-397

  Conner, Jeffrey K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Multiplicative fitness components; Natural selection gradients; Path analysis

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 1542424574     PISSN: 03949370     EISSN: 18287131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08927014.1996.9522911     Document Type: Article

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