Mutation-selection balance for environmental variance

American Naturalist

Volumn 171, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 394-399

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evolution; Genetic variation; Heritability; Quantitative trait; Stabilizing selection

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; MUTATION; NOTE; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENT; GENOTYPE; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SELECTION (GENETICS); VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 40549113358     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/527503     Document Type: Note

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