Lifetime selection on heritable life-history traits in a natural population of red squirrels

Evolution

Volumn 57, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2416-2423

  Reale D ^a,d   Berteaux, D ^b   McAdam, A G ^c   Boutin, S ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Evolutionary rates; Heritability; Life history traits; Lifetime fitness; Selection; Tamiasciurus hudsonicus

Indexed keywords

BIRTH DATE; FITNESS; HERITABILITY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LITTER SIZE; NATURAL SELECTION; RODENT; TRADE-OFF;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA; SCIURIDAE; TAMIASCIURUS HUDSONICUS;

EID: 18544393147     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2003.tb00253.x     Document Type: Article

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