The maintenance of heritable variation through social competition

Evolution

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 337-347

  Harris, W Edwin ^a   McKane, Alan J ^a   Wolf, Jason B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Condition dependence; Genetic variation; Quantitative genetics; Selection; Social evolution genetics

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FITNESS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HERITABILITY;

ALLELE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR GENETICS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETICS, BEHAVIORAL; GENOTYPE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 39749106721     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00302.x     Document Type: Article

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