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Hormones as Mediators of Phenotypic and Genetic Integration: an Evolutionary Genetics Approach.
Integrative and comparative biology - 1 Aug 2016
Cox Robert M, McGlothlin Joel W, Bonier Frances
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Evolutionary endocrinology represents a synthesis between comparative endocrinology and evolutionary genetics. This synthesis can be viewed through the breeder's equation, a cornerstone of quantitative genetics that, in its univariate form, states that a population's evolutionary response is the product of the heritability of a trait and selection on that trait (R = h(2)S). Under this framework, evolutionary...
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