The developmental, physiological, neural, and genetical causes and consequences of frequency-dependent selection in the wild

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

Volumn 37, Issue , 2006, Pages 581-610

  Sinervo, Barry ^a   Calsbeek, Ryan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Correlational selection; Interspecific interactions; Intraspecific; Perception; Rock paper scissors

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; COEVOLUTION; DEVELOPMENTAL STABILITY; GENETIC VARIATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; WILD POPULATION;

EID: 33845412407     PISSN: 1543592X     EISSN: 15452069     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.37.091305.110128     Document Type: Review

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