How much can the orientation of G's eigenvectors tell us about genetic constraints?

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1834-1842

  Berner, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Genetic architecture; Multivariate statistics; Pleiotropy; Spectral decomposition; Trait correlation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890282879     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.306     Document Type: Article

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