Heritability of asymmetry and lateral plate number in the threespine stickleback.

The estimation of individual fitness and quality are important elements of evolutionary ecological research. Over the past six decades, there has been great interest in using fluctuating asymmetry (FA) to represent individual quality, yet, serious technical problems have hampered efforts to estimate...

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Main Authors: John Loehr, Tuomas Leinonen, Gabor Herczeg, Robert B O'Hara, Juha Merilä
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3391203?pdf=render