Sexual Dimorphism Increases Evolvability in a Genetic Regulatory Network

Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 52-67

  Fierst, Janna L ^a,b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Dimorphic trait; Epistasis; Genetic regulatory network; Linkage disequilibrium; Mutational robustness; Pleiotropy

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952315134     PISSN: 00713260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11692-010-9103-6     Document Type: Article

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