Comparing evolvabilities: Common errors surrounding the calculation and use of coefficients of additive genetic variation

Evolution

Volumn 66, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2341-2349

  Garcia Gonzalez, Francisco ^a,b   Simmons, Leigh W ^a   Tomkins, Joseph L ^a   Kotiaho, Janne S ^b   Evans, Jonathan P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

CVA; Evolvability; Fitness; Heritability; IA; Natural selection; Quantitative genetics; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; FITNESS; GENETIC VARIATION; HERITABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCALE EFFECT; SEXUAL SELECTION; TRANSFORMATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; INVERTEBRATE; PLANT; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GENETIC VARIATION; INVERTEBRATES; MODELS, GENETIC; PLANTS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SELECTION, GENETIC; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 84864314275     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01565.x     Document Type: Article

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