Evolvability and genetic constraint in Dalechampia blossoms: components of variance and measures of evolvability
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- 1 July 2003
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- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Evolutionary Biology
- Vol. 16 (4) , 754-766
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1420-9101.2003.00556.x
Abstract
Many evolutionary arguments are based on the assumption that quantitative characters are highly evolvable entities that can be rapidly moulded by changing selection pressures. The empirical ...Keywords
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