Genetic architecture of fitness and nonfitness traits: empirical patterns and development of ideas.

Abstract excerpt

Comparative studies of the genetic architecture of different types of traits were initially prompted by the expectation that traits under strong directional selection (fitness traits) should have lower levels of genetic variability than those mainly under weak stabilizing selection (nonfitness traits). Hence, early comparative studies revealing lower heritabilities of fitness than nonfitness traits were first...

Topics

Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.

• Share to Biological Evolution
• Share to Genetic Variation
• Share to Models, Genetic