Divergent selection on, but no genetic conflict over, female and male timing and rate of reproduction in a human population

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1772, 2013, Pages

  Bolund, Elisabeth ^a   Bouwhuis, Sandra ^a,b,c   Pettay, Jenni E ^d   Lummaa, Virpi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF AVIAN RESEARCH VOGELWARTE HELGOLAND   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Genetic correlation; Heritability; Life history; Sexually antagonistic selection

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; FITNESS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; HERITABILITY; HUMAN GEOGRAPHY; LIFE HISTORY THEORY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY;

FINLAND;

MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84885211880     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.2002     Document Type: Article

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