The distribution and hypothesis testing of eigenvalues from the canonical analysis of the gamma matrix of quadratic and correlational selection gradients

Evolution

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1076-1085

  Reynolds, Richard J ^a   Childers, Douglas K ^a   Pajewski, Nicholas M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Fitness surface; Nonlinear selection; Phenotypic selection; Selection surface; Stabilizing selection

Indexed keywords

CANONICAL ANALYSIS; EIGENVALUE; FITNESS; MATRIX; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; ORNAMENTATION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; SELECTION; STABILIZATION; TELEOST;

POECILIA RETICULATA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOWER; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; PHENOTYPE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLE SIZE; SILENE;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOWERS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLE SIZE; SELECTION, GENETIC; SILENE;

EID: 77955010218     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00874.x     Document Type: Article

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