Article
Heritability of fitness in a wild mammal population.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 18 Jan 2000
Kruuk L E, Clutton-Brock T H, Slate J, Pemberton J M, Brotherstone S, Guinness F E
Abstract excerpt
Classical population genetics theory predicts that selection should deplete heritable genetic variance for fitness. We show here that, consistent with this prediction, there was a negative correlation between the heritability of a trait and its association with fitness in a wild population of red deer (Cervus elaphus) and there was no evidence of significant heritability of total fitness. However, the decline in...
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