Competition can maintain genetic but not environmental variance in the presence of stabilizing selection

Evolution

Volumn 61, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1532-1545

  Zhang, Xu Sheng ^a   Hill, William G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Competition; Environmental variance; Genetic variance; Quantitative trait; Selection

Indexed keywords

GENETIC VARIATION; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; MUTATION; NATURAL SELECTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM;

ARTICLE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENOTYPE; HAPLOIDY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHENOTYPE;

GENOTYPE; HAPLOIDY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHENOTYPE; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 34347360649     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00147.x     Document Type: Article

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