Maintenance of phenotypic variation: Repeatability, heritability and size-dependent processes in a wild brook trout population

Evolutionary Applications

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 602-615

  Letcher, Benjamin H ^a   Coombs, Jason A ^a,b   Nislow, Keith H ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Brook trout; Growth compensation; Heritability; Repeatability; Size dependent growth

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958777212     PISSN: 17524563     EISSN: 17524571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-4571.2011.00184.x     Document Type: Article

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