Evolution of adaptive phenotypic variation patterns by direct selection for evolvability

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1713, 2011, Pages 1903-1912

  Pavlicev, Mihaela ^a,c   Cheverud, James M ^a   Wagner, Günter P ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Allometry; Canalization; Differential epistasis; Modularity

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ALLOMETRY; BAT; CANALIZATION (BIOLOGY); CORRELATION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; HUMAN EVOLUTION; MUTATION; NATURAL SELECTION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOUSE; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC VARIATION; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SELECTION, GENETIC;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 79955748576     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.2113     Document Type: Article

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