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Heritability of dispersal rate and other life history traits in the Glanville fritillary butterfly.
Heredity - 1 Jan 2008
Saastamoinen M
Abstract excerpt
Knowing the variances and heritabilities (h(2)) of life history traits in populations living under natural conditions is necessary for a mechanistic understanding of respective evolutionary processes. I estimated heritabilities of several life history traits, including dispersal rate, body mass, age at first reproduction, egg mass, clutch size and lifetime reproductive success, in the Glanville fritillary...
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