Understanding specialism when the jack of all trades can be the master of all

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1749, 2012, Pages 4861-4869

  Remold, Susanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antagonistic pleiotropy; Directional selection; Epistatic pleiotropy; Magnitude pleiotropy; Mutation accumulation; Sign pleiotropy

Indexed keywords

ANTAGONISM; EPISTASIS; FUTURE PROSPECT; HABITAT USE; MUTATION; NATURAL SELECTION; PLEIOTROPY;

EID: 84869139621     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.1990     Document Type: Review

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