Levels of selection on threshold characters

Genetics

Volumn 179, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 899-905

  Moorad, Jacob A ^a   Linksvayer, Timothy A ^b  

^a University of Georgia   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DOMINANCE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FAMILIAL INCIDENCE; FITNESS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GROUP DYNAMICS; HAMILTON SCALE; INHERITANCE; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; MALE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SELECTION (GENETICS); SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 49849086157     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.108.086959     Document Type: Article

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