From Individuals to Groups and Back: The Evolutionary Implications of Group Phenotypic Composition

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 609-621

  Farine, Damien R ^a,b,c   Montiglio, Pierre Olivier ^a   Spiegel, Orr ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FITNESS; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GENE EXPRESSION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SELECTION;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ECOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PHENOMENA; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84943244648     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2015.07.005     Document Type: Review

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