Phenotypic plasticity facilitates mutational variance, genetic variance, and evolvability along the major axis of environmental variation

Evolution

Volumn 66, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2891-2902

  Draghi, Jeremy A ^a   Whitlock, Michael C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Evolution of mutational covariance; Evolutionary constraint; Evolvability; Genetic covariance matrix; Phenotypic plasticity

Indexed keywords

COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; MUTATION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; PHENOTYPE;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC VARIATION; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84865768717     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01649.x     Document Type: Article

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