Defining individual quality over lifetimes and selective contexts

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1704, 2011, Pages 321-328

  Lailvaux, Simon P ^a   Kasumovic, Michael M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Life history; Plasticity; Quality; Quantitative genetics; Selection

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SEASON; FITNESS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; NATURAL SELECTION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

EID: 79251510903     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.1591     Document Type: Conference Paper

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