Natural selection and the heritability of fitness components

1987/10/01 by Timothy A Mousseau, Timothy A. Mousseau, Derek A Roff +1 · 1,740 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Environmental Science · #Animal Behavior and Reproduction #Biology #Directional selection #Ecology #Ectotherm #Evolutionary biology #Gene #Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock #Genetic correlation #Genetic variation #Genetics #Heritability #Life history #Life history theory #Natural selection #Quantitative genetics #Selection (genetic algorithm) #Wildlife Ecology and Conservation #Zoology

paper · pdf · doi:10.1038/hdy.1987.113

published in Heredity 59(2), 181-197 (Springer Nature)

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