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A REASSESSMENT OF GENETIC LIMITS TO EVOLUTIONARY CHANGE

article by Mark W. Blows & Ary A. Hoffmann published June 2005 in Ecology

A tale of two matrices: multivariate approaches in evolutionary biology.

scientific article published on January 2007

Abundant Genetic Variation + Strong Selection = Multivariate Genetic Constraints: A Geometric View of Adaptation

scientific article published in 2009

Accounting for Sampling Error in Genetic Eigenvalues Using Random Matrix Theory

scientific article

Adaptation of rainbow fish to lake and stream habitats

scientific article published on 01 January 2003

Age determination in individual wild-caught Drosophila serrata using pteridine concentration.

scientific article published on August 2006

An evolutionary limit to male mating success

scientific article published on 18 March 2008

An expressed sequence tag (EST) library for Drosophila serrata, a model system for sexual selection and climatic adaptation studies

scientific article (publication date: 21 January 2009)

Are Traits That Experience Reinforcement Also Under Sexual Selection?

scientific article published in 2007

Are traits that experience reinforcement also under sexual selection?

scientific article published on 16 July 2007

Are wing size, wing shape and asymmetry related to field fitness of Trichogramma egg parasitoids?

article by Ursula M. Kolliker-Ott et al published March 2003 in Oikos

Artificial Selection to Increase the Phenotypic Variance in gmax Fails

scientific article published on 14 September 2017

Asymmetry of genetic variation in fitness-related traits: apparent stabilizing selection on g(max).

scientific article published on 22 July 2009

Characterizing the evolution of genetic variance using genetic covariance tensors.

scientific article published on June 2009

Comparing G: multivariate analysis of genetic variation in multiple populations.

scientific article published on 13 March 2013

Comparing complex fitness surfaces: among-population variation in mutual sexual selection in Drosophila serrata.

scientific article published in April 2008

Connecting genetic incompatibilities with natural selection on additive genetic variation during adaptive radiation

scientific article published on 16 January 2019

Contrasting mutual sexual selection on homologous signal traits in Drosophila serrata

scientific article published on 28 December 2004

Cuticular hydrocarbons of Drosophila birchii and D. serrata: identification and role in mate choice in D. serrata

scientific article published in April 2003

Debating sexual selection and mating strategies

scientific article published in May 2006

Determining the effective dimensionality of the genetic variance-covariance matrix

scientific article published on 17 March 2006

Dissecting the complex genetic basis of mate choice

scientific article published on September 2006

Divergent selection and the evolution of signal traits and mating preferences

scientific article

Dominance genetic variance for traits under directional selection in Drosophila serrata

scientific article published on 16 March 2015

Environmentally induced development costs underlie fitness tradeoffs

article

Estimating nonlinear selection gradients using quadratic regression coefficients: double or nothing?

scientific article published on 4 July 2008

Estimating uncertainty in multivariate responses to selection

scientific article published on 19 December 2013

Evidence for an Association between Nonadditive Genetic Variation and Extreme Expression of a Trait

article

Evolution of Genetic Variance during Adaptive Radiation.

scientific article published on 31 January 2018

Evolution of additive and nonadditive genetic variance in development time along a cline in Drosophila serrata

scientific article

Evolutionary constraints in high-dimensional trait sets

scientific article published on 15 May 2014

Evolutionary experiments on mate recognition in the Drosophila serrata species complex.

scientific article

Evolutionary optimum for male sexual traits characterized using the multivariate Robertson-Price Identity

scientific article

Evolvability of individual traits in a multivariate context: partitioning the additive genetic variance into common and specific components

scientific article published on 9 February 2010

Experimental evidence for multivariate stabilizing sexual selection.

scientific article published in April 2005

Experimental evidence for the evolution of indirect genetic effects: changes in the interaction effect coefficient, psi (Psi), due to sexual selection

scientific article published on 20 January 2010

Exploring complex fitness surfaces: multiple ornamentation and polymorphism in male guppies.

scientific article published in July 2003

Female mate choice predicts paternity success in the absence of additive genetic variance for other female paternity bias mechanisms in Drosophila serrata

scientific article published on 7 October 2014

Genetic Compatibility Underlies Benefits of Mate Choice in an External Fertilizer.

scientific article

Genetic analysis of female preference functions as function-valued traits

scientific article published in August 2008

Genetic constraints and the evolution of display trait sexual dimorphism by natural and sexual selection

scientific article published in January 2008

Genetic constraints on the evolution of mate recognition under natural selection.

scientific article published in February 2003

Genetic covariance between indices of body condition and immunocompetence in a passerine bird

scientific article

Genetic mechanisms of pollution resistance in a marine invertebrate

scientific article published on 01 December 2007

Genetic variance in female condition predicts indirect genetic variance in male sexual display traits

scientific article

Heritable Micro-environmental Variance Covaries with Fitness in an Outbred Population of Drosophila serrata

scientific article published on 22 June 2017

High-dimensional variance partitioning reveals the modular genetic basis of adaptive divergence in gene expression during reproductive character displacement

scientific article published on 27 June 2011

Interaction between natural and sexual selection during the evolution of mate recognition

scientific article published in June 2002

Joint allelic effects on fitness and metric traits

scientific article published on November 29, 2012

Kin Association During Nest Founding in the Bee Exoneura Bicolor: Active Discrimination, Philopatry and Familiar Landmarks

scientific article published in 1991

Large body size in an island-dwelling bird: a microevolutionary analysis

scientific article

Life‐History Consequences of Divergent Selection on Egg Size in Drosophila melanogaster

article by Lin Schwarzkopf et al published September 1999 in The American Naturalist

Maintenance of quantitative genetic variance in complex, multitrait phenotypes: the contribution of rare, large effect variants in 2 Drosophila species

scientific article published in 2022

Male choice generates stabilizing sexual selection on a female fecundity correlate

scientific article published in September 2007

Measuring natural and sexual selection on breeding values of male display traits in Drosophila serrata

scientific article published in January 2006

Measuring nonlinear selection

scientific article published on 19 December 2003

Multivariate quantitative genetics and the lek paradox: genetic variance in male sexually selected traits of Drosophila serrata under field conditions

scientific article published in December 2004

Mutational Pleiotropy and the Strength of Stabilizing Selection Within and Between Functional Modules of Gene Expression

scientific article published in February 2018

Natural genetic variation in cuticular hydrocarbon expression in male and female Drosophila melanogaster

scientific article published on 28 December 2006

Natural selection stops the evolution of male attractiveness

scientific article

Ontogenetic change in genetic variance in size depends on growth environment

scientific article published in June 2010

Orientation of the genetic variance-covariance matrix and the fitness surface for multiple male sexually selected traits.

scientific article published on 9 March 2004

Pedigree-free animal models: the relatedness matrix reloaded

article

Phenotypic divergence along lines of genetic variance

scientific article published on 16 November 2004

Pleiotropic mutations are subject to strong stabilizing selection

scientific article

Pleiotropy, apparent stabilizing selection and uncovering fitness optima

scientific article

Positive genetic correlation between female preference and offspring fitness

scientific article published in November 2002

Predator-induced phenotypic plasticity in tadpoles: extension or innovation?

scientific article published in March 2006

Predicting the age of mosquitoes using transcriptional profiles

scientific article published in January 2007

Q(St) meets the G matrix: the dimensionality of adaptive divergence in multiple correlated quantitative traits.

scientific article published on 12 March 2008

Quantitative genetics of female mate preferences in an ancestral and a novel environment

scientific article published in September 2010

Reconciling strong stabilizing selection with the maintenance of genetic variation in a natural population of black field crickets (Teleogryllus commodus).

scientific article

Reducing mutation load through sexual selection on males

scientific article published on 28 June 2011

Sexual conflict and the maintenance of multivariate genetic variation.

scientific article published on 28 December 2009

Sexual selection on spontaneous mutations strengthens the between-sex genetic correlation for fitness.

scientific article published on 19 July 2017

Sexually antagonistic genetic variance for fitness in an ancestral and a novel environment

scientific article published on 4 March 2009

Signal trait sexual dimorphism and mutual sexual selection in Drosophila serrata

scientific article published in October 2003

Simultaneous Estimation of Additive and Mutational Genetic Variance in an Outbred Population of Drosophila serrata

scientific article

Substantial changes in the genetic basis of tadpole morphology of Rana lessonae in the presence of predators

scientific article published in November 2006

THE GENETICS OF CENTRAL AND MARGINAL POPULATIONS OF DROSOPHILA SERRATA. I. GENETIC VARIATION FOR STRESS RESISTANCE AND SPECIES BORDERS.

scientific article

THE GENETICS OF CENTRAL AND MARGINAL POPULATIONS OF DROSOPHILA SERRATA. II. HYBRID BREAKDOWN IN FITNESS COMPONENTS AS A CORRELATED RESPONSE TO SELECTION FOR DESICCATION RESISTANCE.

scientific article published in August 1993

The Depletion of Genetic Variance by Sexual Selection

scientific article published on 15 February 2007

The Genetics of Central and Marginal Populations of Drosophila serrata. I. Genetic Variation for Stress Resistance and Species Borders

article

The contribution of selection and genetic constraints to phenotypic divergence.

scientific article published in February 2010

The contribution of spontaneous mutations to thermal sensitivity curve variation in Drosophila serrata.

scientific article

The distribution of genetic variance across phenotypic space and the response to selection

scientific article

The diversification of mate preferences by natural and sexual selection

scientific article published on 22 June 2009

The evolution of reproductive character displacement conflicts with how sexual selection operates within a species

scientific article published on 21 February 2008

The genetic covariance among clinal environments after adaptation to an environmental gradient in Drosophila serrata

scientific article published on July 2004

The genetic covariance between life cycle stages separated by metamorphosis

scientific article published in August 2014

The nature and extent of mutational pleiotropy in gene expression of male Drosophila serrata.

scientific article published on 08 January 2014

The phenome-wide distribution of genetic variance.

scientific article published on 12 May 2015

The phenotypic and genetic covariance structure of drosphilid wings

scientific article published in April 2007

The roles of natural and sexual selection during adaptation to a novel environment

scientific article published on November 2006

The use of transcriptional profiles to predict adult mosquito age under field conditions

scholarly article

Transcriptome-wide effects of sexual selection on the fate of new mutations

scientific article published on 21 September 2015

Uneven Distribution of Mutational Variance Across the Transcriptome of Revealed by High-Dimensional Analysis of Gene Expression

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