The maintenance (or not) of polygenic variation by soft selection in heterogeneous environments

American Naturalist

Volumn 164, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 70-84

  Spichtig, Mathias ^a,b   Kawecki, Tadeusz J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Genetic polymorphism; Genetic variance; Heterogeneous environments; Quantitative traits; Soft selection

Indexed keywords

DISPERSAL; GENETIC VARIATION; POLYMORPHISM; POPULATION REGULATION; SELECTION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SELECTION; GENOTYPE; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENT; GENOTYPE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS); SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 3342937584     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/421335     Document Type: Article

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