What animal breeding has taught us about evolution

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

Volumn 41, Issue , 2010, Pages 1-19

  Hill, William G ^a   Kirkpatrick, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

animal model; finite populations; fitness; genetic variance; mutations; population genetics; quantitative genetics; selection; selection limits

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHOD; FITNESS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIATION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LITERATURE REVIEW; MUTATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION SIZE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SELECTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 78149363574     PISSN: 1543592X     EISSN: 15452069     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-102209-144728     Document Type: Article

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