Change and maintenance of variation in quantitative traits in the context of the Price equation

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 14-22

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Environmental variance; Epistasis; Genetic variance; Genotype environment interaction; Mutation; Natural selection

Indexed keywords

EPISTASIS; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; MUTATION; NATURAL SELECTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECOMBINATION;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENETIC FITNESS; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GENETIC FITNESS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 72549092037     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2009.10.004     Document Type: Article

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