The evolution of bet-hedging adaptations to rare scenarios

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 560-575

  King, Oliver D ^a   Masel, Joanna ^b  

^a WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolutionarily stable strategy; Evolutionary capacitance; Evolvability; Extinction; Fluctuating environment; Frequency dependent selection; Moran model; Phenotypic plasticity; Population genetics

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; EXTINCTION; FITNESS; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION SIZE; SELECTION;

ADAPTATION; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ALGORITHMS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 35349007441     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2007.08.006     Document Type: Article

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