The role of life cycle and migration in selection for variance in offspring number

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 837-860

  Shpak, Max ^a   Proulx, Stephen R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bet hedging; Hard and soft selection; Metapopulation; Migration; Variance in fitness

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LIFE CYCLE; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION MIGRATION;

ALLELES; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; GENETICS, POPULATION; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MODELS, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS); VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 33947512878     PISSN: 00928240     EISSN: 15229602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11538-006-9164-y     Document Type: Article

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