Individual quality: Tautology or biological reality?

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 361-364

  Bergeron, Patrick ^a   Baeta, Renaud ^a   Pelletier, Fanie ^a   Réale, Denis ^b   Garant, Dany ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fitness; Frailty; Heterogeneity; Individual variation

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; FITNESS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; HETEROGENEITY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MAMMAL; POPULATION STRUCTURE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SELECTION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; NOMENCLATURE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ECOLOGY; GENETIC FITNESS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; SELECTION, GENETIC; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 79551596586     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2010.01770.x     Document Type: Article

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