Why may repeatability of highly flexible traits say little about their evolutionary potential?

Open Ecology Journal

Volumn 3, Issue , 2010, Pages 26-28

  Naya, Daniel E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Heritability; Natural selection; Phenotypic plasticity; Repeatability; Trait flexibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955763031     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18742130     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1874213001003010026     Document Type: Article

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