The Evolution of Canalization and Evolvability in Stable and Fluctuating Environments

Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 317-340

  Le Rouzic, Arnaud ^a   Álvarez Castro, José M ^b   Hansen, Thomas F ^c  

^a France and University of Paris Sud   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Canalization; Epistasis; Evolvability; Fluctuating selection; Mutation selection balance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881369723     PISSN: 00713260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11692-012-9218-z     Document Type: Article

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