Evolution of adaptation and mate choice: Parental relatedness affects expression of phenotypic variance in a natural population

Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 111-124

  Oh, Kevin P ^a   Badyaev, Alexander V ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal model; Developmental stability; Environmental variance; Genetic complementarity; Heritability; Heterozygosity; Maternal effects

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; AVES;

EID: 45249093560     PISSN: 00713260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11692-008-9017-8     Document Type: Article

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