The relationship between genotype, developmental stability and mating performance: Disentangling the epigenetic causes

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue 1550, 2004, Pages 1815-1821

  Polak, Michal ^a   Stillabower, Elizabeth M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Developmental stability; Drosophila immigrans; Epigenetic control; Genetic quality; Positional fluctuating asymmetry; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENTAL STABILITY; FLUCTUATING ASYMMETRY; GENETICS; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COPULATION; DEVELOPMENTAL STABILITY; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA IMMIGRANS; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; FLUCTUATING ASYMMETRY; GENOTYPE; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL SELECTION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; MORPHOMETRICS; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; DROSOPHILA; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 17044377780     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2786     Document Type: Article

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