Quantitative genetic approaches to evolutionary constraint: how useful?

doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01794.x

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Quantitative genetic approaches to evolutionary constraint: how useful?

Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Nov 2012

Conner Jeffrey K

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The study of evolutionary constraint is an active and important area, and genetic correlations and quantitative genetic techniques more generally have been the dominant approach to constraint. Here, I argue that genetic correlations are not very useful for studying constraint, review recent alternative approaches, and briefly discuss the state of our knowledge of the evolutionary importance of constraints caused...

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Biological Evolution
Genetic Fitness
Genetic Variation
Models, Genetic
Phenotype
Selection, Genetic

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PMID: 23106699
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01794.x

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