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The evolution of trade-offs: testing predictions on response to selection and environmental variation.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Jan 2002
Roff Derek A, Mostowy Serge, Fairbairn Daphne J
Abstract excerpt
The concept of phenotypic trade-offs is a central element in evolutionary theory. In general, phenotypic models assume a fixed trade-off function, whereas quantitative genetic theory predicts that the trade-off function will change as a result of selection. For a linear trade-off function selection will readily change the intercept but will have to be relatively stronger to change the slope. We test these...
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