Estimating sampling error of evolutionary statistics based on genetic covariance matrices using maximum likelihood

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1542-1549

  Houle, D ^a   Meyer, K ^b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Evolution; Evolvability; G matrix; Quantitative genetics; Restricted maximum likelihood; Sampling error

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; DATA SET; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ESTIMATION METHOD; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; MARKOV CHAIN; MONTE CARLO METHOD; STATISTICAL MODEL; WING;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DROSOPHILA; GENETIC VARIATION; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, GENETIC; MONTE CARLO METHOD; WINGS, ANIMAL;

EID: 84938974080     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: 14209101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12674     Document Type: Article

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