Quantitative genetics of larval life-history traits in Rana temporaria in different environmental conditions

Genetical Research

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 161-170

  Laugen, Ane T ^a   Kruuk, Loeske E B ^b   Laurila, Anssi ^a   Räsänen, Katja ^a,c   Stone, Jonathan ^a,d   Merilä, Juha ^a,e  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOPATRY; AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; DIET RESTRICTION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; FROG; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HERITABILITY; LARVAL STAGE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; QUANTITATIVE GENETICS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; RANA TEMPORARIA; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELECTION (GENETICS); TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; RANA TEMPORARIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 31744433898     PISSN: 00166723     EISSN: 14695073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016672305007810     Document Type: Article

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