On the nature and evolutionary impact of phenotypic robustness mechanisms

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

Volumn 45, Issue , 2014, Pages 495-517

  Siegal, Mark L ^a   Leu, Jun Yi ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

canalization; conditional neutrality; cryptic genetic variation; epistasis; genotype networks; macroenvironmental variation; microenvironmental variation; mutational robustness; phenotypic plasticity

Indexed keywords

CANALIZATION (BIOLOGY); CRYPSIS; EPISTASIS; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENETIC VARIATION; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHYSIOLOGY;

EID: 84913536210     PISSN: 1543592X     EISSN: 15452069     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-120213-091705     Document Type: Article

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