Genetic evolution, plasticity, and bet-hedging as adaptive responses to temporally autocorrelated fluctuating selection: A quantitative genetic model

Evolution

Volumn 69, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 2034-2049

  Tufto, Jarle ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Developmental instability; Microenvironmental variability; Norm of reaction; Phenotypic variance

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CANALIZATION (BIOLOGY); ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GENETIC STRUCTURE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SELECTION;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHENOTYPE; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS;

EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC FITNESS; GENETIC VARIATION; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84940461080     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/evo.12716     Document Type: Article

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