A primary role of developmental instability in sexual selection

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1629, 2007, Pages 3133-3140

  Polak, Michal ^a   Taylor, Phillip W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Developmental instability; Evolutionary capacitance; Fluctuating asymmetry; Heritability; Phenodeviance; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; COURTSHIP; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FITNESS; FLUCTUATING ASYMMETRY; FLY; GENETIC VARIATION; HERITABILITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COURTSHIP; DEVELOPMENTAL STABILITY; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NATURAL SELECTION; NEW CALEDONIA; NONHUMAN; ORNAMENTAL SPECIES; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL SELECTION;

MELANESIA; NEW CALEDONIA [MELANESIA]; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

DROSOPHILA BIPECTINATA;

EID: 36849008792     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.1272     Document Type: Article

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