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Maternal effects and the potential for evolution in a natural population of animals.

Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Apr 2002

McAdam Andrew G, Boutin Stan, Réale Denis, Berteaux Dominique

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Maternal effects are widespread and can have dramatic influences on evolutionary dynamics, but their genetic basis has been measured rarely in natural populations. We used cross-fostering techniques and a long-term study of a natural population of red squirrels, Tamiasciurus hudsonicus, to estimate both direct (heritability) and indirect (maternal) influences on the potential for evolution. Juvenile growth in...

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PMID: 12038543
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2002.tb01396.x

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