Very low levels of direct additive genetic variance in fitness and fitness components in a red squirrel population

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1729-1738

  Mcfarlane, S Eryn ^a   Gorrell, Jamieson C ^b   Coltman, David W ^b   Humphries, Murray M ^c   Boutin, Stan ^b   Mcadam, Andrew G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Genetic covariance; Heritability; Robertson Price identity; Sexual antagonism; Temporal fluctuations in selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900844997     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.982     Document Type: Article

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