Genotype-Phenotype Maps Maximizing Evolvability: Modularity Revisited

Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 371-389

  Pavlicev, Mihaela ^a,b   Hansen, Thomas F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Conditional evolvability; Constraint; Correlated response; Genetic architecture; Pleiotropy

Indexed keywords

EID: 81255172030     PISSN: 00713260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11692-011-9136-5     Document Type: Article

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