Evolution of Robustness and Plasticity under Environmental Fluctuation: Formulation in Terms of Phenotypic Variances

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 148, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 686-704

  Kaneko, Kunihiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Evolution; Fluctuation response relationship; Genetic variance; Robustness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866292138     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10955-012-0563-1     Document Type: Article

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