Environmental quality and evolutionary potential: Lessons from wild populations

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 272, Issue 1571, 2005, Pages 1415-1425

  Charmantier, Anne ^a   Garant, Dany ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cross environment genetic correlation; Environment; Genetic variance covariance; Heritability; Meta analysis

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIATION; WILD POPULATION;

COVARIANCE; DROSOPHILA; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HERITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; WILDLIFE; ANIMAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; INHERITANCE; META ANALYSIS; PEDIGREE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PEDIGREE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SELECTION (GENETICS); VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 25444443174     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3117     Document Type: Review

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