Community heritability measures the evolutionary consequences of indirect genetic effects on community structure

Evolution

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 991-1003

  Shuster, S M ^a   Lonsdorf, E V ^a,b   Wimp, G M ^a,c   Bailey, J K ^a,d   Whitham, T G ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Lincoln Park Zoo ^*  (United States)

^c University of Maryland   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arthropods; Community evolution; Community genetics; Cottonwood; Extended community phenotype; Indirect genetic effects; Populus

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; ARTHROPOD; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FITNESS; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENOTYPE; HERITABILITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE;

NORTH AMERICA;

ARTHROPODA; POPULUS;

ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; ASPEN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NORTH AMERICA; PHENOTYPE; TREE;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; NORTH AMERICA; PHENOTYPE; POPULUS; SELECTION (GENETICS); TREES; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 33745367158     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1554/05-121.1     Document Type: Article

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