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Evolution and maintenance of the environmental component of the phenotypic variance: benefit of plastic traits under changing environments.

The American naturalist - 1 Nov 2005

Zhang Xu-Sheng

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How environmental variances in quantitative traits are influenced by variable environments is an important problem in evolutionary biology. In this study, the evolution and maintenance of phenotypic variance in a plastic trait under stabilizing selection are investigated. The mapping from genotypic value to phenotypic value of the quantitative trait is approximated by a linear reaction norm, with genotypic...

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Biological Evolution
Ecosystem
Environment
Genetic Variation
Hybrid Vigor
Models, Genetic
Phenotype
Quantitative Trait Loci
Reproduction

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PMID: 16224722
DOI: 10.1086/491800

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