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QUANTITATIVE GENETIC APPROACHES TO EVOLUTIONARY CONSTRAINT: HOW USEFUL?
Article first published online: 24 SEP 2012
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01794.x
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Conner, J. K. (2012), QUANTITATIVE GENETIC APPROACHES TO EVOLUTIONARY CONSTRAINT: HOW USEFUL?. Evolution, 66: 3313–3320. doi: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01794.x
Publication History
- Issue published online: 25 OCT 2012
- Article first published online: 24 SEP 2012
- Accepted manuscript online: 3 SEP 2012 12:07PM EST
- Received August 6, 2012 Accepted August 8, 2012
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Keywords:
- Adaptation;
- covariance;
- G-matrix;
- genetic correlation;
- selection gradient;
- variance
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 by genetic variance and covariance.