Evolutionary rates for multivariate traits: The role of selection and genetic variation

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1649, 2014, Pages

  Pitchers, William ^a,c   Wolf, Jason B ^b   Tregenza, Tom ^c   Hunt, John ^c   Dworkin, Ian ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Constraint; Evolutionary rates; Evolvability; G matrix; Natural selection; Quantitative genetics

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; GENETIC VARIATION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MORPHOLOGY; NATURAL SELECTION; PHENOTYPE; SEXUAL SELECTION;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION GENETICS; PROCEDURES; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHENOTYPE; SELECTION, GENETIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84964315866     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0252     Document Type: Article

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