Genetic and environmental sources of egg size variation in the butterfly Bicyclus anynana

Heredity

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 163-169

  Fischer, K ^a,b   Bot, A N M ^a   Zwaan, B J ^a   Brakefield, P M ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Heritability; Offspring size; Phenotypic plasticity; Reaction norm; Temperature

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; EGG SIZE; GENOTYPE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HERITABILITY; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; REACTION NORM; TEMPERATURE;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INBREEDING; MALE; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; TEMPERATURE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BUTTERFLIES; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; INBREEDING; MALE; OVUM; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; TEMPERATURE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; BICYCLUS; BICYCLUS ANYNANA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; NYMPHALIDAE;

EID: 1842614381     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.hdy.6800382     Document Type: Article

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