The mutation matrix and the evolution of evolvability

Evolution

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 727-745

  Jones, Adam G ^a   Arnold, Stevan J ^b   Bürger, Reinhard ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Adaptive landscape; G matrix; Genetic correlation; Mutation; Quantitative genetics; Response to selection

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; GENETIC VARIATION; MODELING; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; SELECTION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION GENETICS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETICS, POPULATION; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 34047229695     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00071.x     Document Type: Article

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