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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
Abstract excerpt
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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