Signal reliability compromised by genotype-by-environment interaction and potential mechanisms for its preservation

Evolution

Volumn 61, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1748-1757

  Mills, Suzanne C ^a,b   Alatalo, Rauno V ^a   Koskela, Esa ^a   Mappes, Johanna ^a   Mappes, Tapio ^a   Oksanen, Tuula A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE PERPIGNAN   (France)

Author keywords

Antagonistic sexual selection; Clethrionomys glareolus; Condition dependence; Dominance; Mammal; Phenotypic plasticity; Reaction norms

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DOMINANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; GENOTYPE; HERITABILITY; MATE CHOICE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; RODENT; SEXUAL SELECTION; SIGNALING; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARVICOLINAE; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MALE;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; MALE;

CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; MAMMALIA; MURIDAE;

EID: 34347339428     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00145.x     Document Type: Article

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