Environmental quality and evolutionary potential: lessons from wild populations.

ABSTRACT: An essential requirement to determine a population's potential for evolutionary change is to quantify the amount of genetic variability expressed for traits under selection. Early investigations in laboratory conditions showed that the magnitude of the genetic and environmental components of phenotypic variation can change with environmental conditions. However, there is no consensus as to how the expression of genetic variation is sensitive to different environmental conditions. Recently, the study of quantitative genetics in the wild has been revitalized by new pedigree analyses based on restricted maximum likelihood, resulting in a number of studies investigating these questions in wild populations. Experimental manipulation of environmental quality in the wild, as well as the use of na

SUBMITTER: Charmantier A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1559820 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature